Facebook launched an initiative it calls the Open Compute Project, an effort to share the specs and designs of the custom servers in its data center in Prineville, Ore. In other words, Facebook is ...

When you sit down with the burly Texan, inside Facebook's Northern California headquarters, he takes the Open Compute philosophy to new extremes, revealing the blueprint for a computer server that ...

In this context, I’m talking about the software—like Apache or nginx—which you can set up on your own desktop computer. That machine will then act as a web server.

In a move that has surprised observers, Microsoft has thrown its weight behind the Open Compute Project (OCP), an initiative launched in 2011 by Facebook to promote industry collaboration on ...