Microsoft Open-Sources Cloud Server, Management Kevin Fogarty, January 28, 2014 5 min read Microsoft likes a modular, no-cable design for datacenter cloud servers. Microsoft has announced it is joining the...
Facebook’s Datacenter Evolution Continues Kevin Fogarty, July 17, 2013 5 min read Fans lined up outside Facebook's Lulea, Sweden data center. Despite a growing emphasis on the cloud as a way to...
Look Out, Cisco: Open Compute Project Is Moving to Switches Mark Hachman, May 9, 2013 3 min read Cisco switches: Doomed? Facebook and the Open Compute Project (OCP) continued its figurative march through Georgia...
Will Dell Lose Data-Center Customers to the Open Compute Project? Mark Hachman, February 20, 2013 4 min read Dell’s earnings for its most recent quarter—possibly its last before going private—did not end on a positive...
Will Group Hug Commoditize the Hardware Market? Mark Hachman, January 21, 2013 7 min read Will the Open Compute Project’s Common Slot specification and Facebook’s Group Hug board commoditize the data...
The Open Compute Project Could Make Big Data More Affordable Nick Kolakowski, January 18, 2013 3 min read Facebook seems to have shifted its long-running Open Compute Project (OCP) into a whole new gear. At this week’s Open...
Rackspace ‘Entering’ Server Arena Via Open Compute Project Mark Hachman, January 17, 2013 3 min read Rackspace Hosting has announced plans to design its own Open Compute-compliant servers, which industry partners will...
Intel: Silicon Photonics Moving to Market Mark Hachman, January 17, 2013 3 min read Intel announced Jan. 17 that it would team up with Facebook and the Open Compute Project to enable silicon photonics,...
“Group Hug” Board Allows Swappable CPUs in Servers Mark Hachman, January 16, 2013 4 min read AMD, Intel, ARM: for years, their respective CPU architectures required separate sockets, separate motherboards, and in...
Meet AMD’s Open Compute Project Motherboard Mark Hachman, January 16, 2013 3 min read AMD has launched “AMD Open 3.0,” a modular server architecture based on the “Roadrunner” platform announced...