Facebook Shakes Hardware World With Own Storage Gear | Wired Enterprise | Wired.com

posted on 25/02/2012 08:36 #hardware #facebook #open compute

http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/02/facebook-builds-storage-gear/

When Facebook first introduced the project last spring, many saw it as a mere PR stunt. But some big-name outfits — including some outside the web game — are already buying Open Compute servers. No less a name than Apple has taken interest in Facebook’s energy-conscious data-center design. And according to Frankovsky, fifty percent of the contributions to the project’s open source designs now come from outside Facebook.