Increasingly ‘smart’ datacentres will lead to savings of over a billion metric tons of CO2 emissions over the next four years, IDC said. When the numbers are so large and the stakes are so high, CIOs and other executives will do well to take notice.
Cisco overtakes IBM as top cloud hardware provider, research firm says
Cisco has overtaken IBM as the leading provider of infrastructure for cloud computing, analysts at Synergy Research reported on Monday. Synergy …
Facebook-Led Open Compute Project tackles network switches
A little more than two years ago, Facebook had a revolutionary idea: Inspired by the model of open-source software, it would bring …
Facebook's open-source data centre project gains strength
Facebook’s year-old project to develop open-source hardware designs with the aim to build efficient data centres gained momentum yesterday, with …
Facebook data centre project takes aim at vendor lock-in
By launching the Open Compute Project (OCP) as a stand-alone foundation, Facebook is hoping to further standardise the market for …