Google provides designs for high voltage racks to help Facebook in supporting power efficiency.
Google is disclosing some of its most highly secured secrets: Blueprints for its custom-made server racks. The company said on March 9 2016 that it contributed to designs for its high-voltage racks to the non-profit organization Open Compute Project Foundation as a part of its efforts to share designs for datacenter machinery that has altered the balance of power in the industry for computer-hardware.
The announcement marks the first involvement of the American search engine developer with the venture, which is headed by Facebook, joining a large number of customers and hardware suppliers that purchase a huge number of servers. Members of Open Compute include Goldman Sachs Group, Microsoft Corporation, and Apple amongst others.
Since 2010, Google has continued to work with its power-efficient 48-volt server racks. It is sharing the design to let others benefit from the energy savings related to high-voltage hardware, stated Urs Hölzle who is heading the cloud platform operations.
In 2011, Open Compute was founded by Facebook to support power efficiency as server rooms expanded rapidly. It stated the energy-efficient designs of the project had saved over $2 billion for the company up till now. As designs for Open Compute have become common, it is now possible to give an order of power-efficiency machinery from various vendors.
Another benefit of Open Compute designs for customers is that they standardize the means by which various datacenter components work jointly. At Microsoft Corporation, every new machine that drives Azure Office 365, Xbox Live and Bing cloud services is based on Open Compute design, told CTO of Azure.
On March 9, 2016, Microsoft aimed to introduce Open Compute switch designs which are used to develop networking gear. Open Compute also has raised the profile of Chinese and Taiwanese contract manufacturers who developed servers for suppliers that have conventionally led the $50 billion servers market: Lenovo Group limited, Hewlett Packard and Dell.
Huge internet companies are tapping companies like Foxconn Technology, Wistron Corporation and Quanta Computer increasingly for assembling low-frill servers for their growing datacenters. Recently, smaller customers have been enticed by Open Compute as well, stated Cumulus Networks CEO J.R Rivers.
Cumulus Network is a company that delivers network systems and solutions to datacenter operators. It is based in Mountain View, California. It is switching from name-brand suppliers and directly going to Asian manufacturers.
Sales of servers by these so-called ODMs (original device manufacturers) in 2014, grew to $4 billion from a figure of $343 million in 2008.
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