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Maybe Open Compute would gain more traction if you could buy these supposedly cost effective parts from the usual value-oriented channels like Newegg. There ar
by marshray 13y ago
Maybe Open Compute would gain more traction if you could buy these supposedly cost effective parts from the usual value-oriented channels like Newegg.
There are plenty of shops, big and small, who prefer to do their own integration from white box parts for good reason. Having to call for quotes from some margin-hungry middleman who probably doesn't even have the stuff in stock sort of defeats the purpose of the "Open" platform.
- McGlockenshire 13y agoWhiteboxing an Open Compute deployment isn't realistic. They're designed to run in non-standard racks with built-in power. http://www.opencompute.org/assets/open-rack/Open_Compute_Project_Open_Rack_v1.0.pdf http://www.opencompute.org/assets/open-rack/Open_Compute_Pro... The target audience won't be deploying one or two machines, they'll be deploying multiple racks. Given that we regularly ship customers full racks of machines and entire preconfigured clusters, we kind of expected some of them to be interested in the alleged superiority of the platform...