{"id":158137,"date":"2016-03-10T08:19:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-10T06:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=158137"},"modified":"2016-03-10T08:21:55","modified_gmt":"2016-03-10T06:21:55","slug":"google-joins-facebooks-open-compute-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/cloud-hosting\/158137-google-joins-facebooks-open-compute-project.html","title":{"rendered":"Google joins Facebook\u2019s Open Compute Project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cloudplatform.googleblog.com\/2016\/03\/Google-joins-Open-Compute-Project-to-drive-standards-in-IT-infrastructure.html\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Google announced it is<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0joining the <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.opencompute.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Open Compute Project<\/a><\/strong> (OCP) to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re collaborating with Facebook on a common 48V rack that we intend to submit for consideration by OCP,\u201d said Google.<\/p>\n<p>There are also other areas of possible collaboration with OCP. \u201cWe\u2019ve recently begun engaging the industry to identify better disk solutions for cloud-based applications.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd we think that we can work with OCP to go even further, looking up the software stack to standardize server and networking management systems.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More on the Open Compute Project<\/h3>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/118945-accidental-facebook-innovation-makes-internet-use-less-energy.html\"><strong>Accidental Facebook innovation makes Internet use less energy<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hosting-storage\/152957-facebook-building-one-of-the-worlds-most-advanced-data-centres.html\">Facebook building one of the world\u2019s most advanced data centres<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google is joining the Open Compute Project to help drive standardization in IT infrastructure. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":152157,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[36,161,167,36005,36003],"class_list":["post-158137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cloud-hosting","tag-active","tag-facebook","tag-google","tag-ocp","tag-open-compute-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158137"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=158137"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158137\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158161,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158137\/revisions\/158161"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/152157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=158137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=158137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=158137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}