What:
Software has eaten the world, but software doesn’t reach very far without hardware and open hardware is an emerging area of open technology. The data centre infrastructure that underlies modern computing grows significantly each year. Innovation in computing over the past fifty years has made possible uses and applications that often approach and sometimes exceed science fiction. 

Over the past ten years, open innovation and worldwide open collaboration have reached data centers – from chip designs, to servers, to electrical infrastructure and cooling – all being pursued in open collaboration among vendors, service providers, and enterprises. 

This movement mirrors what happens at the consumer hardware level – with students at elementary school exposed to programming and small-scale computing devices. The open approach has proven its value to support learning, quickly validate ideas, and more efficiently and effectively address the most difficult problems in computing today.