Facebook Is Also Reinventing The Enterprise Hardware Market With 'OCP'
Oct 01, 2013 20:30
Facebook isn't only changing the way we communicate these days, but they are also leading a revolution in how enterprise hardware is built.
The social network company launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) to create "open source" data center hardware two and a half years ago.
This means that hardware vendors like HP, Dell and Cisco, who basically own the $150 billion data center hardware market, no longer control the product designs. Customers like Facebook and Goldman Sachs do.
OCP's hardware uses fewer materials, and it costs less and performs better than what traditional vendors typically offer. Anyone can help with the designs and OCP gives it away for free.
The OCP project has lead to about a dozen game-changing new pieces of hardware. Check out the gallery to take a look at how different it really is:
How closed racks usually look like:
Facebook's OCP looks like Skyfall's villain setup.
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