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How Facebook Is Eating the $140 Billion Hardware Market
mattydread23 writes: It started out as a controversial idea inside Facebook. In four short years, the Open Compute Project has turned the $141 billion data-center computer-hardware industry on its head. This is the comprehensive history of the project, including interviews with founder Jonathan Heiliger and members of the financial services industry who are already on board, plus a dismissal from Google's own data center guru Urs Holzle.
The guy in charge of selling data center computing as a service thinks that most companies should buy their data center computing from a company like his instead of rolling their own.
And this is surprising or controversial why?
In other news, the guy from Cisco thinks that companies will be looking to Cisco for fast, stable networking. And the guy from Intel thinks that companies will be looking to Intel for power efficient data center solutions.
This doesn't make them luddites.... it makes them salesmen.
They compare free open source software which is a product itself with open source designs for hardware which are just specifications hardware is still not free
Do people not see the connection between increases in privacy breeches and the moves to cloud systems?
The correlation is negative. Cloud companies have better security than a typical small company trying to roll their own solution.
lol - Cisco is a member of the open compute project...