Google joins Facebook’s Open Compute Project
Google announced it is joining the Open Compute Project (OCP) to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure.
Google will contribute a new rack specification that includes 48V power distribution and a new form factor to allow OCP racks to fit into data centers.
“We’re collaborating with Facebook on a common 48V rack that we intend to submit for consideration by OCP,” said Google.
There are also other areas of possible collaboration with OCP. “We’ve recently begun engaging the industry to identify better disk solutions for cloud-based applications.”
“And we think that we can work with OCP to go even further, looking up the software stack to standardize server and networking management systems.”
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