Facebook has taken delivery of the first set of innovative server racks it helped design, technology that the company hopes other organizations with large data centers will adopt. The prototype racks ...

Microsoft this week has open sourced the design specifications of servers and racks that make up its hyperscale Azure cloud data centers, contributing the information to the Open Compute Project (OCP) ...

Equipto Electronics newest rack may take a minimalist approach on design, but offers the same strength and durability of much higher-priced equipment racks. Designed for use in server rooms, data ...

The hyperscalers and cloud builders have been setting the pace for innovation in the server arena for the past decade or so, particularly and publicly since Facebook set up the Open Compute Project in ...

Open Rack will increase the environmental sustainability of the vendor’s future data centers and will improve its operational efficiencies. Huawei today said that it will adopt Open Compute Project ...

I recently completed a server hardware refresh in my environment and made the decision to switch to rack mount hardware. Even though I am no stranger to rack mount hardware, I have never run rack ...

Google and Facebook have set aside rivalries to jointly develop a standard design for server equipment for both firms' datacenters. The Open Rack v2.0 Standard for Google's 48V rack specification is ...

Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Microsoft in embracing open hardware designs with its new low-cost Cloudline servers. Cloudline servers are no-frills cloud servers that ...

Facebook on Thursday launched an initiative it calls the Open Compute Project, an effort to share the specs and designs of the custom servers in its data center in Prineville, Ore. In other words, ...

Hyperscalers have hundreds of millions to more than a billion users, which requires infrastructure on a vast scale. Those hyperscalers that are not running applications on behalf of others on public ...

Hewlett-Packard is following in the footsteps of Facebook and Microsoft in embracing open hardware designs with its new low-cost Cloudline servers. Cloudline servers are no-frills cloud servers that ...