Open Compute Project

Open Compute Project is an initiative announced in April 2011 by Facebook to openly share custom data center designs to improve efficiency across the industry.^[1] The level of openness is unprecedented since companies that custom design their data centers tend to want to keep their designs a closely held corporate secret.^{[citation needed]}

References

1. ^ Building Efficient Data Centers with the Open Compute Project, by Jonathan Heiliger, 07 April 2011, Facebook Engineering's notes

External links

• Open Compute Project website
• M. G. Siegler (7 April 2011). "Facebook’s “Open Compute Project”: Their Server/Datacenter Expertise Now Open To All". http://techcrunch.com/2011/04/07/open-compute-project/. 
• "Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market". http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2011/04/14/will-open-compute-alter-the-data-center-market/.