The OpenFabrics Alliance is a non-profit organization that promotes remote direct memory access (RDMA) switched fabric technologies for server and storage connectivity.

A community of developers from hardware manufacturers, software vendors, system integrators, government agencies and academia continue[update] to work on OFED.

The OpenFabrics Alliance provides architectures, software repositories, interoperability tests, bug databases, workshops, and BSD- and GPL-licensed code to facilitate development.

It offers a range of standard protocols, including IPoIB (IP over InfiniBand[2]), SDP, SRP, iSER, RDS and DAPL (the Direct Access Programming Library).

On June 25, 2007, the OpenFabrics Alliance announced the OFA-UNH-IOL Logo Program in partnership with the University of New Hampshire InterOperability Laboratory.