45k user reviews & 1 million votes, over 29k web hosting brands & 85k plans since 2004!
Menu
WHTop → 📋 News → Facebook’s Open Rack gets a Makeover from Google
Aug, 2016 : Facebook’s Open Rack gets a Makeover from Google
📅 - Facebook and Google data center racks share similar principles, such as the shared power source for many different servers in the rack. However, they are very different when it comes to the physical depth of the rack and the server input voltage.
Recently, Google joined Facebook on an Open Compute Project and they are working to build a standardized rack that will work for a variety of vendors. This led to Google unveiling the first design of their efforts for the Open Compute Project. It builds on the work Facebook has done and others have done for Open Rack 1.2 and is known as Open Rack 2.0.
.
Reads: 904 | Category: General | Source: TheHN : The Hosting News
Want to add a website news or press release ? Just do it, it's free! Use add web hosting news!
Other news
📅 - Web.com Picks CodeGuard for Website Backup Services - CodeGuard has announced on Monday that it has been chosen by Web.com to bring its suite of website backup services to its hosting customers. “At web.com, we're committed to our customers' online security. As a result, we are actively expanding the portfolio of high quality security products we offer our customers,” Dave Idle, Vice President, Marketing and Product Management, for Web.com said. “As we searched for a website backup solution for our customer base, CodeGuard became the clear choice, due to their superior product offerings, ease-of-use, and focus on the customer.”
Website Hosting Customers can select from several packages of CodeGuard services, including daily website monitoring
📅 - Most Developers Worldwide Prefer Android - According to research from VisionMobile, most developers prefer the Android platform. This preference also runs-over into the cloud and desktop platform realm as well. The latest edition of VisionMobile's semi-annual report, State of the Developer Nation, polled over 16,000 developers globally for the VisionMobile Developer Economics survey.
Based on the responses, 47 percent of developers are Android-first, and iOS polled at 31 percent of developers in the 6 months.
Read more ...
📅 - Nearly 50% of Worldwide Developers are Android-First - According to research done by VisionMobile, about half of the professional developers in the world consider Android to be the primary platform. This came out in the semi-annual report called State of the Developer Nation Q3 2016.
The report included more than 16,000 developers responding with 47% saying they are Android-first, which is a 7% increase from the last report. The iOS platform fell from 39% to just 31% over the 6-month period between the reports. ...
📅 - Rackspace has Sold its Cloud Hosting Business to Liquid Web - Rackspace, a managed cloud company, recently sold its cloud hosting business to Liquid Web, a web hosting and close service provider. The purchase by Liquid Web will give them all of Rackspace's cloud customers and the entire Cloud Sites Business Unit. The Rackspace staff and company will remain in San Antonio and a cost for the purchase has not been released yet.
Customers from Rackspace are expected to experience an easy transition as Liquid Web moves the business to their own infrastructure. The company also announced plans to invest further into solutions for Cloud Sites to better serve their new and existing customers.
.
📅 - Amazon’s Transpacific Survey Ship Sets Sail - Amazon's ship, Survey, set sail last Thursday on a mission to explore the Pacific Ocean floor. The objective is to find the best route for laying a fiber-optic cable system to link data centers in the United States with Australia and New Zealand.
This is the cloud giants first wade into the submarine cable system ocean. Amazon's main rivals Microsoft and Google both have already made waves by committing major investments to boost trans-oceanic network bandwidth.
📅 -