Open Compute

Rackspace Jacks Up Memory, Adds SSDs on Public Cloud

If you want to charge a premium price for a product, you have to offer a premium service. Rather than get into a price war with Amazon Web Services, ...Full Article

Facebook Adds Retro Relational to Massive Hadoop Analytics

If there is one lesson that all extreme scale system designs teach us over and over again, it is that you have to tailor the system for the specific ...Full Article

Facebook Loads Up Innovative Cold Storage Datacenter

The next time you load an old photo from your Facebook archive, the odds are increasingly likely that it won't be coming out of one of the social network's ...Full Article

Quanta QCT Peddling Open Compute Servers in North America

Enterprises that are looking to deploy servers and racks based on the Open Compute Project's designs have a new option now that Quanta QCT is ready to sell iron in ...Full Article

Calxeda Adds Top Facebook Hardware Exec to Board

ARM server chip maker Calxeda has landed a heavy-hitter in the open source hardware effort to its board of directors – someone who also makes hardware decisions at one ...Full Article

Facebook Tech Director Reveals Open Networking Plan

Facebook is a classic example of an exponentially growing business with extreme scale IT needs that cannot do things in the data center the way traditional large enterprises do. ...Full Article

Penguin Demos Atom Powered Microserver

Penguin Computing recently debuted their newest integrated SoC design that Penguins says was built with Facebook’s Open Compute Project at the fore. The heart of the new microsever’s design ...Full Article

Facebook Pushes Future of Efficient Datacenters and Apps

When the data center is literally the engine for your business, as it is with Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Amazon, and a slew of hyperscale data center operators, you have ...Full Article