18. Strategies for Modern Data Centers: OCP, the Future of the Modern Data Center?

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So I will, I will go slow, uh, because it is, uh, summer, so I will give, uh, give some, some of our colleagues, uh, uh, a couple of more seconds to join while I'm doing this.

Um, welcome everyone.

I'm, I'm very happy that you've taken the time to join the webinar, even if it's summer and it is already holiday season for a lot of us.

So I'm, I'm very happy that you still take the time to join me and to listen to me.

My name is Klaus Staffinger.

I am part of the marketing team for Legrand Data Center Solutions for Europe.

Um, it was not always like this, so I'm in data center business since twenty-one years now.

Um, I started there as an installer, planner, consultant.

Now I joined the marketing team.

So I spent countless nights in data centers and around data centers over the last twenty-one years, um, which I'm, I'm very happy about so because I, uh...

Yeah, I did, I did a very long journey, actually.

And there is, uh, a lot of changes that I've lived with and, uh, uh, yeah, was with my, with my, uh, with our clients and customers, um, to do this over the past twenty-one years.

And this is also one of the reasons why I thought or why we thought this might be an interesting topic for all of you.

So that's the reason why we set this webinar, which is the third, the last one of the series for this summer.

And this is about a new influence, a very strong influ-influence, a potentially, uh, uh, strong influence on a data center, which is the OCP topic.

So that's the reason why, because in, in, in my eyes and in, in many of our customers' eyes, this is something that they have heard, may never have heard of, but it is definitely worth into exploring it a little bit.

So let's start right away.

So strategies for modern data centers, so OCP.

Is it the future of a modern data center or not? In order to understand this a little bit better, um, we will also explore, so what is OCP overall? So what does it mean? What is it? Why is there a group of people, a big group of people talking about OCP? Um, why is AI accelerating this? So what is the impact on AI, specifically on OCP? What is that we can expect as changes, uh, in a data center caused by OCP? Um, and then, um, I, I guess and very interested-- interesting question for everyone, so will it affect my business? So do I need to prepare for it? What is it? What can I expect? What do I have to expect from OCP? And finally, as I said, so if I expect this, how, uh, can I prepare for it? And what is it that I could do or that I should do? Um, in order to start this, for me it is always very interesting to know at least if you-- It's very interesting for me if you have heard of it or not.

So I've had the notification of the tool [notification sound] that I am live.

I hope this is the case.

If I could have a thumbs up or anything that would show me that you can hear me, that you can see me would be the-- Ah, I see them.

Awesome.

Perfect.

Perfect.

So I will, I will go slow, uh, because it is, uh, summer, so I will give, uh, give some, some of our colleagues, uh, uh, a couple of more seconds to join while I'm doing this.

Um, welcome everyone.

I'm, I'm very happy that you've taken the time to join the webinar, even if it's summer and it is already holiday season for a lot of us.

So I'm, I'm very happy that you still take the time to join me and to listen to me.

My name is Klaus Staffinger.

I am part of the marketing team for Legrand Data Center Solutions for Europe.

Um, it was not always like this, so I'm in data center business since twenty-one years now.

Um, I started there as an installer, planner, consultant.

Now I joined the marketing team.

So I spent countless nights in data centers and around data centers over the last twenty-one years, um, which I'm, I'm very happy about so because I, uh...

Yeah, I did, I did a very long journey, actually.

And there is, uh, a lot of changes that I've lived with and, uh, uh, yeah, was with my, with my, uh, with our clients and customers, um, to do this over the past twenty-one years.

And this is also one of the reasons why I thought or why we thought this might be an interesting topic for all of you.

So that's the reason why we set this webinar, which is the third, the last one of the series for this summer.

And this is about a new influence, a very strong influ-influence, a potentially, uh, uh, strong influence on a data center, which is the OCP topic.

So that's the reason why, because in, in, in my eyes and in, in many of our customers' eyes, this is something that they have heard, may never have heard of, but it is definitely worth into exploring it a little bit.

So let's start right away.

So strategies for modern data centers, so OCP.

Is it the future of a modern data center or not? In order to understand this a little bit better, um, we will also explore, so what is OCP overall? So what does it mean? What is it? Why is there a group of people, a big group of people talking about OCP? Um, why is AI accelerating this? So what is the impact on AI, specifically on OCP? What is that we can expect as changes, uh, in a data center caused by OCP? Um, and then, um, I, I guess and very interested-- interesting question for everyone, so will it affect my business? So do I need to prepare for it? What is it? What can I expect? What do I have to expect from OCP? And finally, as I said, so if I expect this, how, uh, can I prepare for it? And what is it that I could do or that I should do? Um, in order to start this, for me it is always very interesting to know at least if you-- It's very interesting for me if you have heard of it or not.