According to sources familiar with the matter, senior executives from Facebook and Taiwan information technology heavyweights will attend the event. The latter include AsusTek Computer Inc., Delta Electronics Inc., Inventec Corp. and WiWynn Corp.
The Taiwan project is Facebook’s second such initiative following the establishment of a Japanese version earlier this year. The new endeavor opens the possibility of expanded collaboration between IT firms in the two Asian nations. It also enables local hardware suppliers to join Facebook in making inroads into the Japanese market.
Taipei-based Cloud Computing Association welcomes Facebook’s decision and urges more local IT firms to take part in the project.
According to association member Industrial Technology Research Institute, smaller IT firms in Taiwan often find it difficult to link into the supplier chain of major data centers given their limited resources. The project is expected to overcome this hurdle and help generate more cloud computing business opportunities.
Established in 2011 by Facebook, OCP is a joint endeavor supported by global IT powerhouses in designing and developing high efficiency data centers using open infrastructure technologies. (SFC-JSM)
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