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2023 OCP Regional Summit

Wed, 19 Apr 2023 12:00:00 +0000

Join AMI in Prague, Czech Republic from April 19 – 20, 2023 for the Open Compute Project (OCP) Regional Summit. AMI will be present throughout the Summit in Booth A15 as a Topaz sponsor, highlighting the latest in our OpenEdition open-source firmware solutions for boot, manageability and security along with exciting demonstrations in partnership with leading companies in this fast-growing ecosystem.

Visit the event website for the Summit themes, full agenda, registration and more at https://www.opencompute.org/summit/regional-summit

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Security Boulevard: AMI Brings Secure Firmware to the Open Compute Project

Wed, 02 Nov 2022 19:56:46 +0000

Our Chief Product Officer, Kelly Bryant, had a chance to speak with Security Boulevard reporter George Hulme during the OCP Global Summit to talk about how AMI is bringing firmware security to the Open Compute Project through the Tektagon OpenEdition Platform Root of Trust.

Read Kelly’s full interview here: https://securityboulevard.com/2022/10/ami-brings-secure-firmware-to-the-open-compute-project/.

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AMI Contributes its Tektagon OpenEdition Platform Root of Trust Firmware Code Base to the Open Compute Project

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 16:00:59 +0000

ATLANTA, GEORGIA / SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA – AMI®, a global leader in the Dynamic Firmware market for worldwide computing, today announces its contribution of its Tektagon OpenEdition™ Platform Root of Trust (PRoT) code base to the Open Compute Project® (OCP®).

This contribution joins AMI’s ongoing contributions of its Aptio OpenEdition™ UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC OpenEdition™ BMC Firmware code bases to OCP. With this contribution, AMI now offers open-source firmware solutions across all three of its core firmware product categories – to power (UEFI), manage (BMC) and secure (PRoT) the world’s connected devices with open-source dynamic firmware from AMI.

The Open Compute Project (OCP) represents a global community of technology leaders working together to break open the black box of proprietary IT infrastructure to achieve greater choice, customization, and cost savings. OCP makes these solutions, standards and designs available through its OCP Marketplace, where organizations of all types and sizes can research and learn how to purchase OCP Accepted™ and OCP Inspired™ products.

As an OCP Contributor, AMI is committed to encouraging transparency, reliability and security within the open-source community to drive the industry forward, encourage broader adoption of industry-standard data center solutions and harness a respected platform to provide innovative features back to the community. With these goals in mind, AMI continues to work with leaders in the Open Compute ecosystem such as ASPEED® Technology – whose AST1060 service processor is the silicon of choice for the Tektagon OpenEdition solution – to address the challenges and needs that are most important to the OCP end-user community.

As part of its commitment to OCP and open-source initiatives, AMI collaborates closely with silicon providers, ODMs and OEMs to provide open firmware solutions based on the most prevalent source trees while it develops additional value-add features for them. In this way, AMI can maintain the base source, offer multiple levels of support options and offer add-ons for advanced features. Additionally, the AMI source trees are fully managed and maintained by AMI with its world class engineer-to-engineer support and ongoing contributions to OCP.

About Tektagon OpenEdition

Tektagon OpenEdition is an open-source Platform Root of Trust (PRoT) solution with foundational firmware security features that detect platform firmware corruption, recover the firmware and protect firmware integrity. With its open-source code, Tektagon OpenEdition™ augments transparency, resulting in high-quality code and improves implementation with greater customizability, extensibility and support for the open-source community – resulting in faster time-to-market. And like its sibling Tektagon™ XFR – AMI’s flagship PRoT solution – Tektagon OpenEdition is compliant with the NIST Platform Firmware Resiliency (PFR) Guidelines NIST SP 800-193. It is available today for the open-source community through the Open Compute Project GIT repository at https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Tektagon-OpenEdition.

“Today’s announcement is a key milestone for AMI in our open-source firmware strategy. We have reached the ‘trifecta’ with our open-source firmware offerings and can now offer open-source solutions for everything you need on the platform – to power, manage and secure your mission-critical connected devices,” said Zachary Bobroff, Senior Director of Product Office at AMI and a key driver of OCP participation at AMI. “In today’s rapidly expanding IT landscape, there is more data, along with more devices and more architectures – thus more vulnerabilities open to exploit and attack. The Open Compute ecosystem is no different in that regard, highlighting the extreme importance for an open-source PRoT solution such as our Tektagon OpenEdition. We are grateful to the OCP team and our partners like ASPEED who have supported and collaborated with us on the journey to reach today’s important milestone,” he added.

“The Open Compute Project (OCP) Foundation is delighted to see AMI’s contribution of Tektagon OpenEdition to the OCP Community today. As threats to firmware integrity and security increase, AMI’s participation in building up hardware security layers that enable systems builders to more easily deliver open and secure cloud platforms is exactly what the Community needs – and at the right time. We are grateful and recognize AMI’s work and participation in the OCP Community and their resulting contribution to platform security, and their commitment to OCP’s mission to deliver open, validated, secure and scalable cloud solutions,” said Bijan Nowroozi, CTO from the Open Compute Project Foundation.

He added that “AMI’s participation underscores the importance and growing enthusiasm for open-source initiatives at all levels of the scalable computing ecosystem. Adopters of OCP firmware like Tektagon OpenEdition will ultimately benefit by reduced development and validation efforts and resources, both now and into the future. OCP’s focus on sustainable lifecycle design extends the lifecycle of their platforms, and this hardware security solution further enhances that approach by providing adopters with the assurance of commonly available, stable, secure and hardened code.”

“In order to secure platform firmware, the root of trust must be proven – which requires all firmware to be validated and trusted. We are very pleased that AMI has selected the AST1060 PRoT SoC as the hardware vehicle for Tektagon OpenEdition to deliver this capability in an open-source solution through OCP and applaud AMI on its latest source code contribution to the Project. The AST1060 is NIST SP 800-193 compliant as a platform firmware resilience (PFR) solution and features a high-performance Arm® Cortex® M4 CPU (200MHz) to significantly enhance the efficiency of secure image verification to make it a perfect choice for AMI. The internal flash and SRAM architecture of the AST1060 brings the utmost security protection to devices and provides an economical, efficient and powerful silicon platform for the Tektagon OpenEdition firmware,” said Chris Lin, Chairman and President of ASPEED.

For more information about the Tektagon OpenEdition code base components from AMI and the benefits of leveraging open-source firmware code from AMI, please visit ami.com/open-source. To review the specifications and key features of the solution, download the Tektagon OpenEdition datasheet at https://9443417.fs1.hubspotusercontent-na1.net/hubfs/9443417/Data_Sheets/Security_Solutions/Tektagon_OpenEdition_Data_Sheet_PUB.pdf.

About the Open Compute Project Foundation

At the core of the Open Compute Project (OCP) is its community of hyperscale data center operators, joined by telecom and colocation providers and enterprise IT users, working with vendors to develop open innovations that when embedded in product are deployed from the cloud to the edge. The OCP Foundation is responsible for fostering and serving the OCP community to meet the market and shape the future, taking hyperscale led innovations to everyone. Meeting the market is accomplished through open designs and best practices, and with data center facility and IT equipment embedding OCP community developed innovations for efficiency, at-scale operations, and sustainability. Shaping the future includes investing in strategic initiatives that prepares the IT ecosystem for major changes, such as AI & ML, optics, advanced cooling techniques, and composable silicon. Learn more at www.opencompute.org.

The OCP® and OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT® marks are owned by and used with the permission of the Open Compute Project Foundation. GITHUB®, the GITHUB® logo design, OCTOCAT® and the OCTOCAT® logo design are exclusive trademarks registered in the United States by GitHub, Inc. ASPEED® is a registered trademark of ASPEED Technology Inc. Arm® and Cortex® are registered trademarks of Arm Limited (or its subsidiaries) in the US and/or elsewhere. Intel® is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the respective property of their owners.

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AMI is Empowering Open with OpenEdition Dynamic Firmware at OCP Global Summit 2022

Fri, 14 Oct 2022 15:56:01 +0000

ATLANTA, GEORGIA / SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA: As a leading provider of firmware and software solutions for the computing industry, AMI® is excited to participate in the OCP Global Summit 2022. This year’s event will be held in San Jose, California from October 18-20 at the San Jose Convention Center. AMI will be exhibiting at Booth A14 in the Expo Hall as an Emerald Sponsor.

“We’re excited to be a sponsor at OCP Global Summit for the second year in a row! This is a great opportunity to meet with customers and showcase our latest open system firmware and security solutions. We look forward to building new connections with design, manufacturing, and integrator members at this important event,” said Sanjoy Maity, Chief Executive Officer of AMI.

This year at the Summit, we’re focusing on “Empowering Open” with a full range of open-source solutions that power the diverse and thriving Open Compute Project® (OCP®) ecosystem. During the Summit, stop by our booth to explore our latest offerings and learn how we are contributing to making open source even more secure and accessible for all.

A few key reasons why you should visit AMI at OCP Global Summit 2022:

Listen to a keynote Executive talk from AMI Chief Executive Officer Sanjoy Maity on “Empowering a Robust Open-Source Ecosystem with Strategic Partners & Relationship Building” on Tuesday, October 18 at 4:30 pm PT
Learn how to “Empower your Platform with Open System Firmware – Freedom to Change, Freedom to Share” with an Expo Hall talk by AMI Chief Product Officer Kelly Bryant on Tuesday, October 18 at 3:40 pm PT
“Achieve Platform Security and Protect Your Open-Source Firmware with Hardware Root of Trust” – technical presentations by AMI and partner experts
See how to create your own custom firmware stack based on AMI’s OpenEdition solutions
Extend your platform security to Broadcom’s MegaRAID® 9600 Storage Adapter and 200G NIC family using Tektagon™ XFR
Learn more about Intel® and AMI’s collaboration to create a common OpenBMC solution
See various DC-SCM solutions leading the way in modularizing platform firmware for the data center
Explore cutting-edge security initiatives such as confidential computing and DC-SCM Hardware Root of Trust for AMD platforms

AMI is proud to contribute and innovate as part of this growing community, driving increased collaboration by building strategic partnerships and relationships. Here’s what some of our strategic partners are saying about how AMI is Empowering Open:

Intel

“OpenBMC is the future of server management,” said Mohan Kumar, Intel Fellow. “Collaboration between Intel and AMI has facilitated an open, extensible, yet fully supported industry-leading solution now available to everyone. This will make it easier for the industry to adopt OpenBMC, making it a go-to solution for BMC based management.”

AMD

“We’re excited to be working with AMI on several cutting-edge security initiatives,” said Hugo Romero, Head of AMD Product Security Office. “Both Hardware Root of Trust and Confidential Computing are two of the hottest topics in the security world right now, and we are excited to be working with AMI on these technologies. AMI’s Tektagon and AMI TruE solutions are designed to be interoperable with AMD EPYC™ processors, and we’re looking forward to demonstrating these solutions at AMI’s booth.”

Open Compute Project® and OCP® are trademarks of Open Compute Project Foundation. MegaRAID® is a registered trademark of Broadcom Inc. Intel® and Xeon® are registered trademarks of Intel Corporation. EPYC™ is a trademark of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

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OCP Global Summit 2022 Q&A: AMI Will Showcase Its Cutting-edge Firmware Solutions – Expertise in Security, Orchestration, and Manageability

Kelly Bryant — Thu, 13 Oct 2022 18:07:59 +0000

We are excited to attend the 2022 OCP Global Summit! Our team will be showcasing our firmware solutions that can secure open source environments to reduce the risk of cyberattacks. We recently chatted with vmBlog about what we’re bringing to the show this year and how AMI can help organizations manage their firmware security.

You can read the full article here: https://vmblog.com/archive/2022/10/07/ocp-global-summit-2022-q-a-ami-will-showcase-its-cutting-edge-firmware-solutions-expertise-in-security-orchestration-and-manageability.aspx#.Y0hRruzMI-Q.

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2022 OCP Global Summit

Tue, 18 Oct 2022 04:00:00 +0000

AMI Empowered Open with Open Dynamic Firmware at OCP Global Summit 2022

Here is the OCP Global Summit 2022 Recap

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2021 OCP Global Summit – Open Compute Project

Tue, 09 Nov 2021 05:00:00 +0000

November 9-10, 2021

Booth B-12

Open Compute Global Summit takes place from November 9 – 10 at the San Jose Convention Center. For more information on OCP Global Summit, please visit https://www.opencompute.org/summit/global-summit. Live and recorded digital content will also be streaming throughout the event from OCP; more information will be coming soon on how to access this content and the virtual portion of the event.

Link to Open Compute Global Summit online meeting signup form on AMI.com: https://www.ami.com/ocp-global-summit

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AMI Upgrades Its Membership to Platinum Level with the Open Compute Project®

Thu, 03 Jun 2021 22:33:29 +0000

DULUTH, GEORGIA – AMI^®, a global leader in powering, managing and securing the world’s connected digital infrastructure, is pleased to announce its new, upgraded status as a Platinum level member of the Open Compute Project^®.

AMI is committed to contributing to the open-source community to encourage transparency, reliability and security at every level of the datacenter ecosystem. Now, as a Platinum Member of OCP, AMI can focus even further on its goals of driving the datacenter industry forward, encouraging broader adoption of industry-standard datacenter solutions and harnessing a respected platform to provide innovative features back to the Community.

As part of its deepened commitment to the open-source community, AMI recently contributed its Aptio OpenEdition™ UEFI Firmware and MegaRAC OpenEdition™ BSP Firmware code bases to the Open Compute Project. This means that developers can now consume the standard OCP firmware build, including the Aptio OpenEdition and MegaRAC OpenEdition code from AMI, directly from an industry leader with decades of BMC and BIOS firmware development.

In its new role as a Platinum Member of OCP, AMI will work with the OCP Community to upstream community derived code and continue to push updated, validated code from AMI developers out to the Community. The results will provide adopters with code that is widely adopted, stable and secure. Continued adoption of OCP firmware throughout the industry will help start and scale firmware development teams, reducing the time needed for onboarding and training developers. Firmware development for new and existing projects also benefit from the inclusion of industry-leading firmware development tools.

“AMI’s move to Platinum membership with the Open Compute Project directly reflects our ambitions and goals as OCP Contributor, given our recent contribution of our Aptio OpenEdition and MegaRAC OpenEdition code bases to the Project. We believe that our expanded participation in OCP as a Contributor and Platinum Member is an emphatic expression of AMI’s desire to fully embrace open-source opportunities and find new ways to support our customers and the industry at large,” said Sanjoy Maity, Chief Executive Officer of AMI.

“Most importantly, our upgraded membership will translate to added visibility for AMI, enhancing our image and standing as a foundational technology company that is actively engaged with the open-source ecosystem. This is especially important and relevant for us in the datacenter, cloud and telco verticals – key areas of focus for AMI in our ongoing push towards organizational transformation and industry leadership,” he added.

Kelly Bryant, Chief Product Officer of AMI, added his thoughts by saying “At this higher level of membership, AMI will participate more fully within OCP at a level that is commensurate with its status in the industry and as a source-code contributor to the Project. The OCP Community can expect to see AMI take a more decisive leadership role within it, sponsoring and speaking at OCP events, leading projects and committees and interacting more deeply with other OCP members and the wider community of interest.”

“AMI has been involved in the OCP Community for some time, and the decision to upgrade to Platinum membership is a reflection of the importance of open-source initiatives at all levels of the scalable computing ecosystem,” stated Bill Carter, Chief Technology Officer of Open Compute Project. “As a Platinum member, AMI will be more involved in industry events and speaking engagements through OCP and related industry groups. We look forward to their increased participation in the OCP Community among those forward-thinking organizations using OCP technologies, specifications and OCP Inspired™ and OCP Accepted™ products, from ODMs that build and sell products, and our “circular economy” resellers.”

Availability

AMI’s Aptio OpenEdition and MegaRAC OpenEdition code bases are freely available from the respective Open Compute Project GitHub^® repositories at https://github.com/opencomputeproject/Aptio-OpenEdition and https://github.com/opencomputeproject/MegaRAC-OpenEdition. For more information about the Aptio OpenEdition and MegaRAC OpenEdition code base components from AMI, along with a useful infographic outlining the key features and benefits of leveraging open-source firmware code from AMI, please visit ami.com/ocp.

About Open Compute Foundation and the OCP Marketplace

The Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) was initiated in 2011 with a mission to apply the benefits of open source and open collaboration to hardware and rapidly increase the pace of innovation in, near and around the datacenter’s networking equipment, general purpose and GPU servers, storage devices and appliances, and scalable rack designs. OCP’s collaboration model is being applied beyond the datacenter, helping to advance the telecom industry & Edge infrastructure. More information about the OCP Marketplace can be found at https://www.opencompute.org/products.

The OCP, OPEN COMPUTE PROJECT, OPEN INSPIRED and OPEN ACCEPTED marks are owned by and used with the permission of the Open Compute Project Foundation. GITHUB® is an exclusive trademark registered in the United States by GitHub, Inc. All other trademarks and registered trademarks are the respective property of their owners.

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