Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware ...

Facebook on Wednesday outlined its new server design that aims to improve performance per watt and contributed it to the Open Compute Project. With most of the cloud and enterprise heavy hitters ...

Microsoft has announced that it is signing up to the Open Compute Project (OCP ... the company will be contributing to the project its Microsoft cloud server specification — a 12U shared ...

It will also release the software code that it uses to manage the server hardware to the open source community. The Open Compute Project was begun by Facebook over two years ago with the goal of ...

Microsoft has been a member of the Open Compute Project since 2014 ... s pattern-matching in hardware, Project Zipline can match more than 64,000 block patterns in real time.

"Intel and Facebook are collaborating on a new disaggregated, rack-scale server architecture ... technologies in the open and contributing them back to the Open Compute Project will yield an ...

are all being open sourced through the Open Compute project. There will no doubt be many other server types and form factors that Facebook uses (and maybe even instruction sets) as the company's ...

and any vendor can sell servers identical to the ones that power Facebook's data centers.Microsoft joining Open Compute boosts the chances that the project might have some impact on the server ...

Google has joined Facebook's Open Compute Project in a bid to improve data centers everywhere. It's starting off by contributing a new server rack spec that both improves power handling and lets ...

What started as a crazy idea inside Facebook a few years ago has become a full-blown phenom: the Open Compute Project ... Frankovsky says this server is "the most open architecture than we ...