Open Compute creates variety, not uniformity
Commoditized standard hardware can actually enhance the variety on offer: consider Microsoft and Facebook’s Open Compute strategies
Industry Views - IT Hardware & Semiconductors, Open Compute
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Open Compute power distribution doesn’t travel well?
Google is sharing its 48VDC power distribution with the Open Compute Project. This will be of limited use in European data centers
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Open Compute takes on telecoms
After taking on web-scale data centers, OCP is turning its attentions to the telecoms industry
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Open Compute faces validation requests
Web giants don’t need fully-validated Open Compute products. But if other people want them, why can’t they have them?
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Open and prosper or pillage and survive?
I experienced two very different approaches to IT development last week in the USA. Which one will dominate, only time will tell
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As HP joins Open Compute, Google should take note
HP and Microsoft - and even Apple - are in the Open Compute Project. Could Google one day open up as well?