To make these open-frame server racks even more functional, ShowMeCables carries a wide assortment of accessories. They include 23-inch-wide rack-mount drawers, shelves, spacers and cable managers.

I'm not getting a four post rack, it's kind of overkill for a single server and switch/patch panel.

Rather than changing the form factors of the servers to accommodate more or less storage, Facebook keeps the nodes the same form factor for its Open Rack sleds and adjusts the storage using local bays ...

What do the servers and racks that make up one of the largest hyperscale data center networks in the world look like? Microsoft has provided a glimpse this week when it open sourced Project ...

Nearly two years ago, Facebook unveiled what it called the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share designs for data center hardware like servers, storage, and racks so that companies could ...

But what if you want a space-saving version of purpose-built server or networking hardware? Jeff Geerling’s Project Mini Rack is a new resources for building 10 inch rack systems for networking ...

By including that technology in the proposed Open Rack 2.0 standard, Google and Facebook would be implicitly encouraging server hardware manufacturers to include it in their products.

Cloudline servers will share specifications with server offerings from other companies using OCP’s Open Rack and Open Cloud Server specifications.

Google and Facebook have set aside rivalries to jointly develop a standard design for server equipment for both firms' datacenters. The Open Rack v2.0 Standard for Google's 48V rack specification ...