OpenFog Consortium

OpenFog Consortium

Type	Consortium
Industry	Telecommunications
Founded	19 November 2015
Founders	ARM Holdings Cisco Systems Dell, Inc. Intel Corportation Microsoft Corporation Princeton University
Headquarters	Fremont, California
Key people	President Jeff Fedders Chairman of the Board Helder Antunes Vice President Matt Vasey Executive Director Lynne Canavan
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, by ARM Holdings, Cisco Systems, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, and Princeton University.

Membership

There are 9 companies on the board of directors (ARM, Cisco, Dell, Intel, Microsoft, Princeton University , IEEE, GE, and Schneider Electric), with the general membership currently comprising 8 academic members: Arizona State University, California Institute of Technology, Georgia State University, National Chiao Tung University, University of Southern California, University of Pisa, Vanderbilt University, Wayne State University, and 10 additional members: Nebbiolo, Prismtech, Real-time Innovations, Sakura Internet, Stichting imec Nederland, Toshiba , Fujitsu, FogHorn Systems, TTTech and MARSEC.

Published Work

In February 2016, OpenFog Consortium published the white paper, "OpenFog Reference Architecture". It outlined the eight pillars of an OpenFog architecture:  Security; Scalability; Open; Autonomy; Programmability; RAS (Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability); Agility; and Hierarchy.