OpenFog Consortium

OpenFog Consortium
Consortium
Industry Telecommunications
Founded 19 November 2015
Founders
Headquarters Fremont, California
Key people
 President
Jeff Fedders
Chairman of the Board
Helder Antunes
Vice President
Matt Vasey
Website openfogconsortium.org

The OpenFog Consortium (sometimes stylized as Open Fog Consortium) is an consortium of tech industry companies and academic institutions aimed at promoting fog computing.

Creation

OpenFog was created on November 19, 2015,[1][2][3][4] by ARM Holdings,[5] Cisco Systems,[6] Dell,[7] Intel,[8] Microsoft,[9] and Princeton University.[10]

Membership

There are 9 companies on the board of directors (ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University , IEEE,[11] GE, and Schneider Electric), with the general membership currently comprising 4 academic members: Georgia State University,[12] National Chiao Tung University, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University[13] and 7 additional members: Nebbiolo, Prismtech,[14] Real-time Innovations,[15] Sakura Internet, Stichting imec Nederland, Toshiba[16] and Fujitsu

References

  1. ↑ Janakiram, MSV (18 April 2016). "Is Fog Computing the Next Big Thing in the Internet of Things". Forbes Magazine. Retrieved 18 April 2016.
  2. ↑ Alex, Davies (20 November 2015). "Usual suspects form OpenFog Consortium". ReThink Internet of Thing Newsletter. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  3. ↑ McKendrick, Joe. "Fog Computing: a New IoT Architecture?". RT Insights. Retrieved 6 April 2016.
  4. ↑ Princeton University, Submission to ACM (18 December 2015). "Communications of the ACM: Fog Computing Harnesses Personal Devices to Speed Wireless Networks". Association for Computing Machinery. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  5. ↑ "The Open Fog Consortium and ARM". community.arm.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  6. ↑ "Cisco Corporate Blog". OpenFog Consortium: An Ecosystem to Accelerate End-to-End IoT Solutions. Cisco. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  7. ↑ "Accelerating IoT: Dell and Other Leaders Create the Open Fog Consortium". en.community.dell.com. Retrieved 2016-04-05.
  8. ↑ "Clearing the fog: the industry doubles down on distributed cloud". Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  9. ↑ "Microsoft helps accelerate IoT with new OpenFog Consortium". Microsoft IoT Blog. Microsoft. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  10. ↑ "'Fog' computing harnesses personal devices to speed wireless networks". www.princeton.edu. Princeton University. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  11. ↑ Gutierrez, Peter (14 April 2016). "OpenFog Consortium Bolsters Its Ranks". Retrieved 13 April 2016.
  12. ↑ "GSU Joins the OpenFog Consortium". 1 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  13. ↑ "Wayne State University Joins OpenFog Consortium". 5 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  14. ↑ "PrismTech Joins the OpenFog Consortium". 5 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  15. ↑ "RTI Joins OpenFog Consortium". 22 February 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
  16. ↑ "Toshiba Joins OpenFog Consortium". 10 March 2016. Retrieved 5 April 2016.
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