News and highlights from the 2025 OCP Global Summit

Representatives from Seagate joined more than 11,000 other tech leaders at the 2025 OCP Global Summit in San Jose, California, Oct. 13-16. 

This is the premier event of the Open Compute Project (OCP), a worldwide community collaborating on open-source solutions for data centres and edge computing. This year’s conference theme was “Leading the Future of AI.”

Seagate and OCP: A long-time supporter of OCP, Seagate believes open standards are critical. “Scaling cloud infrastructure is getting harder as data centres become more diverse,” says Mohamad El-Batal, chief technologist at Seagate.

“By embracing open standards, cloud providers can simplify architectures — making it easier to scale with confidence, knowing that key components will behave consistently as they grow.”

Heard at the conference: Seagate’s team on the ground shared these key takeaways: 

• Industry leaders set the stage: Keynotes from leaders at Google, NVIDIA, Oracle, AMD, Microsoft and Meta underscored a shared vision: transforming infrastructure to meet the demands of AI at scale. Central themes included managing power consumption, increasing rack density and optimising total cost of ownership. 
• AI is reshaping infrastructure: The rise of AI is reshaping the data centre landscape, turning construction into a major economic engine. Between 2017 and 2023, data centre development contributed an estimated $355 to $727 billion to U.S. GDP — growth that now rivals consumer spending in early 2025. 
• Cooling takes centre stage: Half of the expo hall was dedicated to advanced rack and data centre cooling technologies, including coolant distribution units (CDUs). Standing-room-only sessions — particularly NVIDIA’s showcase on liquid cooling — highlighted its growing importance in scaling AI infrastructure. 

On display: Innovative demos included Hyve’s latest digital infrastructure. Built for the world’s largest hyperscale cloud providers, it supports up to 120 hard drives per rack. At the show, Hyve fitted it with Seagate’s Mozaic hard drives — a configuration maximising storage density with the highest capacity hard drives. 

Seagate delivered two presentations:

• Drive regeneration in action: This session focused on how to keep drives productive longer, minimise downtime and achieve significant savings. 
• Multi-headed composable memory appliance (MHCMA) next gen: This presentation explored how to reduce hardware waste and simplify management with MHCMA — a flexible, shared memory architecture. 

“OCP is where the future of infrastructure takes shape,” says Mohamad El-Batal. “The conversations here reaffirm what we’ve known — the future of AI depends on open collaboration. And together, we’re driving the breakthroughs that will power tomorrow’s data-dependent innovations.”

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