Open Compute will develop a specification and a reference box for an open networking switch and will do so from the ground up in the fashion of open-source software efforts, such as those developed by the Apache Foundation.
The OS-agnostic, top-of-rack switch will be the first developed as an open-source project with the spec developed by the Open Compute community.
“Closesd switches are… → Read More
League of Legends is the most-played, multi-player PC game in the world, with gamers logging nearly 1.3 billion hours of play time. The Riot Games title has more hours logged than World of Warcraft and Minecraft. → Read More
More hardware will open up — it’s inevitable. Hardware in the data center is no exception. Hardware in the data center is no exception. As Tim O’Reilly said in his keynote at the Open Compute Summit, innovation in the data center is critical for keeping up with the Internet’s pace of innovation. A first step is opening the hardware so people can hack it and adapt it to the data that flows at an… → Read More
“Open” this, “open” that: It seems like everything is “open” these days. Well hello, people, Bill Gates’ gravy boat has run aground. It’s time to get out the Starship and fly in those open clouds. → Read More
Facebook is a data company. Today’s news about its new search features proves it. So did last week’s news about Facebook testing what it can charge people to send Mark Zuckerberg a message. And tomorrow at the Open Compute Summit, Facebook will again show why becoming the world’s largest data broker depends on the success of its massive data-center buildout. → Read More
Hardware generally doesn’t interest me too much, so when I heard about the Open Compute project I didn’t give it too much attention. Casually reading up on the subject a little more left me even less interested. Why should Facebook have to design their own hardware, I wondered? Wouldn’t hardware vendors be clambering over each other to supply Facebook with gobs and gobs of servers for their data… → Read More
We’re live today at a Facebook event at their headquarters in Palo Alto. They’ve already noted that this event won’t be about a consumer facing product, but instead will be about the underlying technology that powers the service. And to that end, they’ve announced a new iniative, The Open Compute Project.
So what is it? Facebook is opening up the specifications and design documents that went into… → Read More
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