Hyperscalers want to end the leap second, as things start to turn negative

Rack standards are getting an upgrade, but will Open Rack or Open19 come out on top? 

Facebook organized an OCP Technology Day, and Menno Kortekaas was there to make detailed notes

The cloud consumes technology differently. It needs scalable, flexible commodity hardware and software. Only open source can feed the data centers of tomorrow

Movies and music might move online but optical media get a new lease of life thanks to Frank Frankovsky’s Optical Archive

The 19in rack has 80 years of tradition. Some say it might be time for a change

Network vendors follow Facebook, making open switches for the data center