· Posted by Giovanni Coglitore at 19:01 PM
The Open Rack creates a new, open standard for server rack design that provides an innovative platform for rack infrastructure while lowering TCO in the scale compute space. It’s the first rack standard that’s designed for data centers, integrating the rack into the data center infrastructure, part of the Open Compute Project’s “grid to gates”…
· Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 15:00 PM
It’s amazing how much can happen in a year. Last April, when we open sourced a set of server and data center designs under the name “Open Compute Project,” we weren’t sure what to expect. It was our hope that we could inspire the industry to be a little more open, a little more innovative,…
· Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 17:00 PM
We asked ourselves some questions a little over a year ago. What if we applied open-source software principles to the hardware industry? What if we could mobilize a community of passionate people dedicated to making data centers and hardware more efficient, shrinking their environmental footprint, while accelerating the pace of innovation? To answer those questions, we…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 20:04 PM
LGE Execs, a firm of seasoned executives that provides interim resources for company transitions, recently started managing the finances for the Open Compute Project Foundation, acting as the foundation’s controller and “virtual” CFO. LGE has helped help the foundation structure its financials, working on budgets and setting up the non-profit status of the foundation. They…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 19:46 PM
This morning we announced the Open Rack specification. The open rack uses an all-encompassing design to accommodate compatible Open Compute Project chassis components, and includes the power solution as well as input and output voltage distribution. You can download the spec now from GitHub. If you’re interested in keeping up to date on the open rack, join…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 22:26 PM
The second Open Compute Project Summit was a resounding success, but that just means we as a community have a lot of work ahead of us to advance the goals and benefits of open hardware. Through a series of presentations by industry luminaries and technical workshops, hundreds of participants came together and discussed the Open…
· Posted by Veerendra Mulay at 20:57 PM
Facebook’s data center in Prineville, OR, has been one of the most energy efficient data center facilities in the world since it became operational early this year. Some of the innovative features of the electrical distribution system are DC backup and high voltage (480 VAC) distributions, which have eliminated the need for centralized UPS and…
· Posted by Pete Bratach at 19:22 PM
For those of you who attended the second Open Compute Project Summit can attest, the project has a lot of momentum, and the community has really taken shape. As this is a community effort, we would love to hear what you’re doing with the Open Compute Project. How do you plan on implementing OCP technologies…
· Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 15:20 PM
When we announced the initiation of the Open Compute Project earlier this year, we posed an audacious question to the industry: What if hardware were open?The benefits, if we could make it work, were clear enough: More openness and collaboration would likely mean a faster pace of innovation in infrastructure technology, greater accessibility to the best…
· Posted by Frank Frankovsky at 21:15 PM
Operating at web scale, and doing so as efficiently as possible, is the next great challenge facing the IT industry. The Open Compute Project was formed to help us all meet that challenge; it’s our hope that adopting an “open source” approach to building servers, storage, power supplies, and data centers will ultimately lead to…