How Open Compute is a Win for Rackspace

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 23 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

In the battle for the hyper-scale data center, long-dominant server OEMs like Dell and HP are doing battle with a growing challenge from firms offering custom server designs. If you’......ig OEMs? That question was addressed by Frank Frankovsky VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain for Facebook, which founded the Open Compute Project last year. He said standards for hardware could allow OEMs ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   Rackspace Hosting   Rackspace

EMC World: EMC Bashes Facebook’s Open Compute Mission Critical Worth

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 21 2012) Storage

EMC has hinted it won’t be putting its name to the Facebook Open Compute Project in an official capacity anytime soon, as the storage giant told TechWeekEurope......lity. A number of big name storage players have pledged to take part in the initiative, with HP and Dell recently pledging to create server and storage boxes to fit with the new, spacier, greener Open Rac... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   IBM   Dell

Are IT Data Centers Emerging as a 'Killer App' for Green Power? Part 1

Explore Renewable Energy World (May 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing , Servers

...uce the emissions potential of a prospective facility. After Greenpeace’s “unfriend coal” campaign, Facebook adopted a siting policy that gives preference to states with access to a clean renewable energy sup......tting emissions from data center electricity use. Leading IT companies Intel, Microsoft, Cisco, and Dell are among the top purchasers of RECs. In fact, Intel is top green power purchaser in the U.S., purc... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Apple   Greenpeace   Amazon.com

In praise (yes praise) of the data center big boys by Doug Mohney

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 16 2012)

...ears and decades before we understand all the consequences, but hardware manufacturers such as AMD, Dell and IBM are paying attention and building hardware to Facebook/Open Compute specs.  You may one day find the "standard" rack next to the Apple ][ as an IT antique... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Google   Facebook

Open Compute Shakes Up Server Supply Chain

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 8 2012) Cloud Computing , Servers

...(ODM) providers and other alternatives to working with original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) like Dell, HP and IBM that have dominated server sales in the U.S. ODMs have historically kept a low profile ......storically kept a low profile while customizing designs for bulk sales to companies like Google and Facebook. Last week two large server customizers,Quanta Computer and ZT Systems, announced product offerings... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Google   Facebook   IBM

Open Compute - Yes it really is radical! by Peter Judge

Explore Views and Opinions on Green IT (May 6 2012)

A couple of years back, the Facebook-led initiative, Open Compute, looked like another one of those well-meaning industry initiatives, t......centres using “densely optimised” servers have decided that their traditional suppliers like HP and Dell have the wrong focus. They have been making nice-looking kit with plastic front plates for the ente... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Forrester Research   Google   The Green Grid

Open Compute builds a business model for the next era of the web

Explore GigaOM (May 4 2012) Servers

...t, Rackable, now called SGI, picked up on the business, but as Forrest Norrad, the VP of servers at Dell pointed out on Wednesday at the Open Compute Summit, Dell realized that companies like Facebook were not just one-off complainers. They were the leading edge of a new way of doing business– and I... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard

Explore TechWeekEurope UK (May 3 2012)

... a similar spec being developed by Chinese search giant Baidu and web portal Tencent, whilst HP and Dell have pledged to create server and storage boxes to fit with the new rack design. Facebook Introduces Open Rack Standard Facebook’s Open Rack spec looks to make data centres more efficient, as tech giants jump on the Open Compute... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook-Driven Open Compute Project Grows Membership, Technologies

Explore eweek.com (May 2 2012) Construction

...technologies. Until then, the social networking giant had been using traditional systems from OEMs. Facebook worked with Intel and AMD and systems makers HP and Dell to create the custom servers. The company was looking to create system that offer the needed perfor... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute Wants to Overhaul Data Center Racks

Explore Data Center Knowledge (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing , Servers

...l component in all data centers,” said Frank Frankovsky, VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain for Facebook, which founded the Open Compute Project last year. “We are ditching the 19-inch rack standard. We’v...... to the rack level. The OCP effort has gained support from two key players in the server ecosystem. Dell and HP were both on hand at today’s Summit to show off new servers loaded ... (Read Full Article)

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Open Compute one year later. Bigger, badder and less disruptive than we thought.

Explore GigaOM (May 2 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

...hift in power is what led me to wonder if Open Compute might mean the end of decent margins for HP, Dell, IBM and other vendors when Facebook launched the project. But it looks like the ecosystem is adapting. HP and Dell are showing off new server and storage designs that will be compatible with OCP’s Open Rack specifi... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Amazon.com   Intel   Facebook

Cloud's dirty laundry to be aired by Greenpeace

Explore crn.com.au (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell

...mentioned in the report. How service providers fare The report looks at Amazon Web Services, Apple, Dell, Facebook, Google, HP, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Akamai, Twitter and Yahoo. Google ranke... (Read Full Article)

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Web Host TurnKey Internet to Open Green Data Center in New York State

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

... Earlier this week, Greenpeace published its “How Green is Your Cloud” report, which saw Amazon and Facebook receive low ratings. In addition to the new data center, Turnkey also recently installed an advance......web hosting and cloud hosting services, will features specialized low-voltage computer servers from Dell and Intel that require less energy to power their cloud-based computing services. To celebrate Eart... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon Receives Failing Grade in Greenpeace “How Green is Your Cloud” Report

Explore Web Host Industry Review (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Cloud Computing

...nter receiving an F and its use of clean energy standing at 15.3 percent. Greenpeace praised Yahoo, Facebook and Google for constructing highly efficient data centers, as well as their use of renewable source......energy and engage their communities. Other companies assessed in the report were Rackspace, Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. Talk Back: Are you currently using a data center p... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace slams Amazon over green datacentre efforts

Explore ZDNet UK (Apr 18 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Carbon Footprint , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...res not being green enough, though the advocacy group has praised sustainability efforts by Google, Facebook and Yahoo. In the How green is your cloud report, published on Tuesday, Greenpeace slammed Apple, A...... and carbon management associated with data consumption." The other companies assessed were Akamai, Dell, HP, IBM, Oracle, Rackspace, Salesforce, Twitter and Yahoo. A thought. Many years ago, after decade... (Read Full Article)

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Amazon, Microsoft low on Greenpeace clean-energy 'cloud' index

Explore The Seattle Times (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint , Emissions , Fossil Fuel , Wind , Cloud Computing

...n/renewable energy sources: solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal. Based on those criteria, Yahoo, Dell, Google and Facebook rank highest in Greenpeace's "clean energy index." Companies ranking the lowest: Salesforce.com, Or... (Read Full Article)

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Greenpeace: Time for cloud companies to come clean

Explore Technology News (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Fossil Fuel , Fuel Cell , Solar , Cloud Computing

...f its efficient data center designs and the hydropower available for its upstate New York location. Dell, Facebook, and Google also get high marks for their efficiency and energy mix. Related stories * Google gets ... (Read Full Article)

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Facebook, eBay win awards for data center efficiency

Explore GigaOM (Apr 17 2012) Construction , Cloud Computing

Facebook and eBay are among the winners of this year’s Green Enterprise IT Awards, which the Uptime Institut......hich the Uptime Institute doles out for advancements in the world of energy-efficient data centers. Dell and eBay took home the award for “Modular Data Center Deployment” for its Project Mercury data cent... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Uptime Institute   Uptime Institute Symposium   Facebook

Iceland Exports Energy as Data

Explore Technology Review (Apr 11 2012) Cloud Computing

...he data, and the data is more valuable," says John Pflueger, principal environmental strategist for Dell and a director of Green Grid, an industry group. "Iceland can be a net exporter of information and ...... an edge. Greenpeace last year published a report excoriating major tech firms, including Apple and Facebook, for relying on coal and nuclear energy to power server farms. "We see this infrastruscture being q... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Greenpeace   Iceland   Europe

Making the web more efficient, a thousand servers at a time

Explore finance.boston.com (Apr 5 2012) Construction , Power and Cooling , Servers

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How the data center market is changing

Explore Smart Business (Mar 1 2012) Construction , Carbon Footprint

...to the colocation market. How is the enterprise market driving the colocation market? For instance, Facebook has proven that you can use most servers at higher inlet temperatures. Once you start to get people...... no demand, the supply price is high. If you can increase demand to where there is a viable market, Dell, HP, IBM — the big computer manufacturers — are starting to see a market in these ... (Read Full Article)

Comment Mentions:   Facebook   IBM   Dell

Facebook dives into storage

Explore GigaOM (Feb 24 2012) Storage

...lions of their own photos and other digital paraphernalia on the site. Frank Frankovsky, the former Dell hardware guy that who now spearheads Facebook’s data center hardware effort told Wired: We’re taking the same approach we took with servers: Elim... (Read Full Article)

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CIO and Supply Chain Expertise = Dell's New CIO

Explore greenm3.com (Jan 13 2012)

...ptimized like a supply chain logistics. One guy who is supply chain expert is Frank Frankovsky at Facebook who is ex-Dell. Speaking of Dell, Dell's new CIO has a supply chain expertise from GM. Adriana Karaboutis, recruited in March 2010, is the... (Read Full Article)

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Inside the New Data Center Supply Chain

Explore Data Center Knowledge (Dec 19 2011) Cloud Computing , Servers

... altered the traditional server supply chain. Rather than purchasing directly from OEMs like HP and Dell, companies like Google and Facebook have developed customer server designs and turned to original design manufacturers (ODMs) to build ... (Read Full Article)

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