Ryan Chow

Cloudflare’s global fleet benefits from being managed by open source firmware for the Baseboard Management Controller (BMC), OpenBMC. This has come with various challenges, some of which we discuss here with an explanation of how the open source nature of the firmware for the BMC enabled us to fix the issues and maintain a more stable fleet.

Nnamdi Ajah, Ryan Chow, and Giovanni Pereira Zantedeschi

This is what Cloudflare has been able to do so far with OpenBMC with respect to our GPU-equipped servers

Ryan Chow, Giovanni Pereira Zantedeschi, and Nnamdi Ajah

Enhancing the Arm Secure Boot chain to improve platform security on modern systems.

Derek Chamorro and Ryan Chow

As a security company, we pride ourselves on finding innovative ways to protect our platform to, in turn, protect the data of our customers. Part of this approach is implementing progressive methods in protecting our hardware at scale.

Derek Chamorro and Ryan Chow