{"id":4369,"date":"2012-05-24T22:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4369"},"modified":"2012-05-24T22:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-05-25T03:31:59","slug":"how-open-compute-is-a-win-for-rackspace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4369","title":{"rendered":"How Open Compute is a Win for Rackspace"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Rackspace is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing providers. The San Antonio company spent $202 million on servers and storage for customers over the past year, <strong>adding more than 12,000 servers in its data centers<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/23\/how-open-compute-is-a-win-for-rackspace\/\">How Open Compute is a Win for Rackspace \u00bb Data Center Knowledge<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To put this in perspective, Amazon EC2 has over 450,000 servers according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/03\/14\/estimate-amazon-cloud-backed-by-450000-servers\/\">this article<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>At the Open Compute Summit earlier this month in San Antonio, both Dell and HP showed off server hardware that will work with the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.datacenterknowledge.com\/archives\/2012\/05\/02\/open-compute-wants-to-overhaul-data-center-racks\/\">Open Rack<\/a> design, which features 21-inch wide equipment slots rather than the traditional 19 inches. Roenigk says Open Rack will play a key role in Rackspace\u2019s cloud computing infrastructure in its next-generation data center design.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Rackspace is one of the fastest-growing cloud computing providers. The San Antonio company spent $202 million on servers and storage for customers over the past year, adding more than 12,000 servers in its data centers. via How Open Compute is &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/?p=4369\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[284],"tags":[67,41,609,637],"class_list":["post-4369","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-servers","tag-cloud-computing","tag-data-centers","tag-open-compute","tag-rackspace"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4369"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4371,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4369\/revisions\/4371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bucktownbell.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}