Partners

Western Digital

"While developing our award winning OpenFlex™ products, Western Digital recognized the need for a compatibility lab where disaggregated hardware resources and orchestration software solutions could demonstrate interoperability. Enabling the open composable disaggregated infrastructure ecosystem is key to driving customer adoption of these products. Western Digital is excited to be a founding partner of the Open Composable Compatibility Lab and is committed to its long-term success by supporting ecosystem solution interoperability."

- Kurt Chan, VP Platforms

NVIDIA

“We view the industry’s first Open Composable Compatibility Lab, driven by Western Digital, as absolutely vital to the evolution of the modern data center,” said Rob Davis, Vice President of Storage Technology, “At NVIDIA we’re equally committed to growing the open composable disaggregated infrastructure (CDI) market and we’re looking forward to our continued partnership with Western Digital and other ecosystem leaders. The OCCL will be truly foundational to ensure that enterprises all over the world benefit from a standards-based approach to delivering fully-tested and fully-interoperable solutions that results in greater choice as customers transform their data centers into more flexible environments that enable data to thrive.”

- Rob Davis, Vice President of Storage Technology, NVIDIA

Broadcom

"Broadcom congratulates Western Digital on the advancement of its Open Composable Compatibility Lab (OCCL 2.0). We are pleased to support next-generation NVMe-oF deployments with our high-performance 400G RoCE/RDMA NICs, which help accelerate the integration of open standards and fabric interconnects for AI clusters. The enhanced capabilities of OCCL 2.0 will enable us—and the broader AI ecosystem—to innovate and optimize fabric-attached architectures across storage and networking."

- Jas Tremblay, Vice President and General Manager - Data Center Solutions Group at Broadcom 

OSNexus

"Western Digital innovations in NVMe-oF and Composable Disaggregated Infrastructure (CDI) were ahead of their time on initial release and are prescient given the ongoing AI revolution and its demands for NVMe based storage solutions."

- Steven Umbehocker, CEO of OSNexus

Xinnor

"Xinnor is excited to partner with Western Digital to enable the open composable infrastructure era. We believe NVMe-oF is the best way to deploy flash at scale, reducing the dark flash problem and optimizing resource utilization.
Xinnor’s xiRAID can protect from possible failures not only of locally attached drives, but also of drives connected via the fabric, paving the way for implementing a disaggregated composable infrastructure capable of achieving extreme performance without any compromise on data resiliency."

- Davide Villa, Chief Revenue Officer of Xinnor

PEAK:AiO

"Our deep collaboration with Western Digital, through OpenFlex and OCCL, enables us to meet the evolving demands of AI and disaggregated storage with precision. Their leadership in NVMe-oF and open composability accelerates our roadmap for intelligent data placement and provisioning, moving beyond the limitations of simply scaling out legacy storage to deliver protected, high-performance infrastructure for the next generation of AI workloads."

- Mark Klarzynski, CTO of PEAK:AIO

Dapustor

"DapuStor is driving innovation to meet the evolving needs of data-intensive workloads for cloud service providers, HPC research institutes, and large enterprises in AI, machine learning, and generative AI inferencing by delivering advanced SLC, TLC, and QLC NVMe SSD solutions. We are excited to collaborate with OCCL 2.0 and the Western Digital OpenFlex Data24 platform to further empower our customers with scalable, high-performance storage for next-generation applications."

- Alfred Chase Hui, VIce President - International Business at Dapustor Corporation

Intel

“Intel recognizes the critical role of efficient and scalable connectivity in modern data centers. OCCL 2.0's focus on disaggregated storage best practices over high-performance Ethernet networks directly addresses these needs.  Our continued partnership with Western Digital on this initiative empowers customers to architect future-ready infrastructures, optimized with Intel's advanced technologies, for greater efficiency and lower TCO.”

- Thom Defranco, Intel Ethernet Solutions Architect at Intel 

Graid Technology 

“As a key partner on Western Digital’s OpenFlex platform, Graid Technology is proud to support the Open Composable initiative to help advance the future of disaggregated infrastructure. SupremeRAID™ redefines what’s possible for NVMe and NVMe-oF environments by leveraging the power of the GPU to deliver ultra-fast, resilient data protection without compromising performance. Together with Western Digital, we enable enterprises to maximize flash performance and efficiency at scale—across AI, HPC, and modern composable architectures.” 

- Tom Paquette, SVP and General Manager of Graid Technology