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Rackspace Starts Work On New UK Data Centre
Rackspace's 130,000 sq. foot, ultra-sustainable data centre will be the centrepiece of 15 acre campus in Crawley
Microsoft Reveals Data Centre Secrets And Joins Open Compute Project
Facebook's Open Compute Project can share Azure, Bing and Office365 data centre designs now Microsoft has signed up
Open Compute Project Tests Three Open Switch Designs
In just six months, Broadcom, Intel and Mellanox have all submitted independent open switch proposals
Fusion-io Shares Secrets Of Flash-Aware Applications With Open Compute And MariaDB
The enterprise Flash pioneer makes its first official contribution to open source
Facebook To Use Chilly Arctic Air For New Data Centre
Facebook has opened its first data centre outside the United States with a green facility in Sweden
Open Compute Project To Develop An Open Switch
The new hardware will be made from scratch
Facebook Data Centres Publish Real-Time Green Data
How green are Facebook's data centres? Check out the dashboards
Seagate Joins OpenStack, Open Compute
The US storage giant professes love for open source
Rackspace Confirms New 10MW UK Data Centre
Ultra-efficient Rackspace data centre on its way to London
Cisco’s Warrior: Unified Data Centres Are Still Best
Monolithic networks are great says Padmasree Warrior, especially if they include standard SDN interfaces
Can Facebook’s Open Compute Explode The Server Market?
Facebook's Open Compute could make traditional servers obsolete, says Peter Judge
Rackspace Plans New UK Data Centre And Adopts Open Compute
New Rackspace site to get no-frills servers, it seems
EMC And ARM Dive Into Facebook’s Open Compute Club
EMC joins despite earlier saying Open Compute-defined systems are not ready for critical data centres
Open Compute: Facebook And Co Shake Up Data Centre Industry
Open Compute's latest initiatives might just re-define how the data centre industry works
AMD Open 3.0 Board Targets Energy-Hungry Data Centres
AMD has unveiled a new server motherboard, Open 3.0, designed for energy-efficient data centres
Open Compute Publishes Open Rack Data Centre Standard
The Open Compute Project has released its latest hardware specs for more power efficient data centres
EMC World: Gelsinger Says Facebook’s Open Compute Isn’t Reliable Enough
Facebook's Open Compute Project isn't reliable enough for critical storage, says EMC's Pat Gelsinger. Or is it just too open?
Facebook’s Wide Racks Show The Triumph Of The Cloud
Stop doubting the cloud, says Peter Judge. It has the power to alter one of the industry's fundamental assumptions
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 train
Facebook To Tackle Open Source Storage Hardware
Social networking site plans to build own storage hardware to handle growing number of user uploads
Greenpeace And Facebook Decide To Friend One Another
Eco-warriors and social networkers decide to Like one another by joining forces to encourage green data centres
Facebook Expands Green Open Hardware Push
The Open Compute Project is looking deeper into green data centres, from storage to systems management
Red Hat Joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project
Red Hat has joined Facebook's project to make a greater use of open source hardware within new data centres
Slower Disk Drives Could Slash Data Centre Power
Disks that slow down when their data goes 'cold' could cut power in data centres, says a Facebook engineer
Facebook Data Centre Strategist Logging Out
Jonathan Heiliger, instigator of Facebook's green data centre initiative, is leaving at the end of summer
Facebook’s Open Compute Gets Discussion Going
When Facebook opened up its green data centre ideas, it also opened up a big discussion which could provide more benefits, says Peter Judge
Facebook Open Sources Green Data Centre Hardware
Facebook shared specs for its custom built low-energy servers, but Greenpeace is not impressed