The Open Compute Project: Why Facebook Is Giving Away The Goods

The Open Compute Project: Why Facebook Is Giving Away The Goods: "carefully safeguarded the secrets to its hyper-efficient data center, has an army of engineers it can task with improving its servers. On the other hand, Facebook, which is growing but still small -- with several thousand employees to Google's more than 20,000 staffers -- has far more limited means. By opening up its data center designs, Facebook is now able to solicit suggestions from thousands of experts worldwide and potentially tweak its technology quickly with fewer people."