Server optimization features such as SSL termination and compression technologies use specialized hardware to offload compute-intensive operations from the servers to the application delivery controllers.
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"This is a realization of the Open Compute Project's mission of 'hacking conventional computing infrastructure, '" said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and VP of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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However, to me, Openness (and with it Broader adoption, private, hybrid of Public) about the Cloud starts with open Standards for APIs, reference architecture and hardware (Open Compute is a good example of that).
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"We're thrilled to see Fusion-io launching ioScale in conjunction with the Open Compute Summit and making this high-performance, low-power technology more broadly available, " said Frank Frankovsky, Chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and Vice President of Hardware Design and Supply Chain at Facebook.
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"We're excited about the flexibility that these technologies can bring to hardware and how silicon photonics will enable us to interconnect these resources with less concern about their physical placement, " said Frank Frankovsky, chairman of the Open Compute Foundation and vice president of hardware design at supply chain at Facebook.
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Facebook has released its Open Compute Project, essentially open sourcing its hardware and data center specs, eWeek reports.
The OpenStack Foundation and the Open Compute Project is a community of 150 companies committed to building cloud architecture based upon open source software and open hardware standards.
First, Web innovators, such as Facebook, Google and Yahoo, have developed a massively scalable storage and compute architecture to manage Big Data: Hadoop, which parallelizes large data sets across low-cost commodity hardware for easy scale and dramatically reducing the cost of petabyte environments.
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