OPENSTACK,OCP server saves nearly half the cost for Rackspace

Rackspace is produced by the manufacturer partner of OCP (Open Compute Project), starts customizing its own server. and in 2011,Rackspace External confirmation that more white box servers will be considered in order to progressively reduce the use of one manufacturer's products. Large data centers, such as Rackspace and Facebook, also want to bypass middlemen and customize motherboards, system architectures, etc. directly to Chinese manufacturers.

Google and Amazon were the first companies to design and customize data center hardware, and Facebook and Rackspace were two of the larger companies following it.

Rackspace is also a founding member of OCP and OpenStack, who officially launched the OpenStack-based cloud service last August 1. OpenStack is a group of software that can manage the physical resources of a large data center. By combining with OCP, Rackspace is expected to replicate an IaaS platform that competes with Amazon. At the same time, OpenStack and OCP are open source platforms, and any company can develop more public or private cloud platforms.

The Open Rack standard has been applied to data centers in the North Carolina State Forest City of Facebook and in Luleå, Sweden, where Rackspace will deploy the improved open Ashburn in the Rack data center.

"OpenStack plus OCP will save 40% of the initial capital and 50% of the operating costs," Rackspace COO Mark Roenigk told the keynote speech at the OCP conference. ”

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