Amazon, Microsoft, and Google all gain market share.
February 2, 2018
New Q4 data from Synergy Research Group shows that spend on cloud infrastructure services jumped 46% from the final quarter of 2016, comfortably beating the growth rates achieved in the previous three quarters.
Earlier this year at the OCP Summit 2017, Facebook announced a refresh of its server hardware fleet and will share the design specifications on the Open Compute Project site so everyone can benefit.
Fifteen years ago, data center engineers had literally thousands of potential clients in the United States with data centers — plenty of work to go around, right?
Increasingly complex data centers have created an opportunity for smart technology, artificial intelligence (AI), and machine-learning technology to advance rapidly.
When Facebook and others launched the Open Compute Project (OCP) in 2011, the goal was to accelerate the commercialization of hardware designs that enable greater data center efficiency and flexibility.
A user complains about it taking too long to load apps. Another says they like to read the newspaper while they wait for the next web page to appear. Someone else notes that database queries are taking too long.
The amount of data generated by businesses and consumers every day is rising exponentially around the world, putting an extra strain on data centers’ performance.