Mark Roenigk
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Open Compute: Rackspace Designs Own Servers Using Open-Source Facebook Specs
Rackspace, one of the world’s largest hosting and cloud-infrastructure providers, is on its way to becoming the first company of a kind other than the web giants of Google’s and Facebook’s caliber to stray away from buying servers and storage gear from traditional IT vendors – such as HP or Dell – choosing instead to design its own gear and use the same manufacturers those traditional vendors use to make it. Read More »
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Rackspace: Open Compute Not Only Cheaper, It's Also Denser
Slightly more than a year has passed since the Open Compute Project (OCP) announced Open Rack, and slightly more than two years has passed since a small group of engineers at Facebook kicked off the open-source hardware-design project, telling the world that data center users did not have to be beholden to the standards dictated by the few incumbent OEMs on the IT market.
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