Open Compute

Cumulus, Midokura Team Up On Open Networks

There is more than one way to skin the software-defined network cat, and Midokura and Cumulus Networks are teaming up to provide an alternative to various OpenFlow implementations as ...Full Article

Hyperscale Datacenters To Dominate Server Shipments

The cloud, in its many forms, is changing the nature of servers and storage and is therefore transforming the overall market for systems and storage. Nothing makes this more ...Full Article

Quanta Pushes Foot Inside Enterprise Datacenter Doors

Hyperscale cloud operators like Facebook and Rackspace Hosting came to Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer several years ago when they wanted to design and build custom machines tuned up for ...Full Article

Chilly UK Weather Cools Latest Rackspace Datacenter

Rackspace recently broke ground on a 130,000 square foot, 10 megawatt datacenter, in the West Sussex region of England, south of London. The US-based cloud and hosting provider together ...Full Article

Dell Bares Switch Metal To Other Network Operating Systems

When you look at a switch, you are looking at the vestiges of a proprietary past that many of the largest companies in the world want to do away ...Full Article

Sneak Peeks At Some Future Open Compute Servers

Events like the Open Compute Summit are like show-and-tell for hardware geeks. It is a chance for system designers, builders, and in this case customers to give their peers ...Full Article

AMD, Applied Micro Take Fabric Weaving 101 For ARM Server Chips

AMD and Applied Micro, the two biggest and most vocal of the remaining ARM server chip makers now that upstart Calxeda has shut down, have taken up weaving. Both ...Full Article

Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute

What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article

AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends

AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article

Fujitsu Demos Silicon Photonics Server Links

There is a growing consensus among system makers, driven in large part by work done by Intel and members of the Open Compute Project founded by Facebook, that the ...Full Article