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So is there anyone not working for a multi-billion multinational that has any interest in OpenCompute? I work for an integrator / VAR that offered OpenCompute
by McGlockenshire 11y ago
So is there anyone not working for a multi-billion multinational that has any interest in OpenCompute?
I work for an integrator / VAR that offered OpenCompute hardware - one of the first thanks to some connections - but never managed to sell any. We gave up trying after about a year. The maintenance burden of keeping a product line alive that nobody wanted to purchase was too much for us to justify.
- deerpig 11y agoWe're working on a project to use open compute racks and servers in a 20' shipping container on one end and a swamp cooler using evaporative media instead of a mister on the other end. It's similar to SGI's discontinued 16' ICE CUBE, but it will be a modular system (computer racks are only one type of module) and an it's an open design which will be donated to open compute (if they're open to the idea). The idea is to be able to quickly and cheaply deploy infrastructure in developing SE Asian countries (we're in Phnom Penh). The problem we keep running into is that when we contact venders selling open compute servers, they don't take us seriously because we aren't building out data centers with hundreds or thousands of racks....
- toast0 11y agoI would conceptually love to something OpenCompute for my home server(s), but when I looked it wasn't really available at the one or two unit level. OTOH, I'm mostly happy with low cost desktop boards, so I'm probably not going to pay real money for something.