{"id":868,"date":"2011-04-20T11:57:47","date_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:57:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/?p=868"},"modified":"2011-04-20T11:57:47","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T16:57:47","slug":"mark-collier-on-facebooks-open-compute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.openstack.org\/blog\/mark-collier-on-facebooks-open-compute\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Collier on Facebook&#8217;s Open Compute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"lead\">Mark Collier has a detailed blog post with plenty of videos on the recent Facebook announcement of Open Compute.\u00a0 The complete post is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.collierclan.net\/mark\/?awesm=awe.sm_5ILSX&amp;p=387&amp;utm_content=awesm-publisher&amp;utm_medium=awe.sm-copypaste&amp;utm_source=hootsuite.com\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>My favorite part&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Starting today, communities like <a href=\"http:\/\/opencompute.org\/\">Open Compute<\/a> can combined forces with other open communities like <a href=\"http:\/\/openstack.org\/\">OpenStack<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/cloudfoundry.org\/\">Cloud Foundry<\/a> to get real world data on how a given workload (say, serving up TMZ.com  to 10M users or something less critical, like storing images from Mars)  actually consumes power to find the waste and come up with innovative  solutions across domains.  To prove that collaboration is about action  and not talk, Jesse Andrews, Jim Curry and myself approached the  Facebook team after the event and said \u201chey! lend us some of these  servers and we\u2019ll take them to our office in San Francisco and have  OpenStack running on them tonight!\u201d.  Something that might have taken  months to arrange was now in motion in a matter of hours!  A couple of  videos of our secret plan in action:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.collierclan.net\/mark\/?awesm=awe.sm_5ILSX&amp;p=387&amp;utm_content=awesm-publisher&amp;utm_medium=awe.sm-copypaste&amp;utm_source=hootsuite.com\" target=\"_blank\">Click<\/a> over to Mark&#8217;s blog post to see OpenStack running on Open Compute hardware on launch day&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mark Collier has a detailed blog post with plenty of videos on the recent Facebook announcement of Open Compute.\u00a0 The complete post is here. 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