Open Compute Project is an initiative announced on April 2011 by Facebook to openly share custom data center designs to improve efficiency across the industry.<ref>http://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-engineering/building-efficient-data-centers-with-the-open-compute-project/10150144039563920<ref>The level of openness was historically unprecedented since companies that custom design their data centers tend to want to keep their designs a closely held corporate secret.[citation needed]
External links
- Open Compute Project website
- M. G. Siegler (7 April 2011). "Facebook's "Open Compute Project": Their Server/Datacenter Expertise Now Open To All".
- "Will Open Compute Alter the Data Center Market".
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