Open IT Hardware: The New Beautiful For Corporate Information Technology

Open Hardware - The "new beautiful" for professionals
The Open Compute Project is the disturbing event that technical and purchasing professionals of the IT companies have dreamed of for many years. The result will be the material that is cheaper, reliability improvements from 20% to 40% of costs, significantly reduces operational 3x, greater scalability, the update cycle day faster and will be much better environment. Several people have pointed out that while the centers and equipment resulting data may not be as alien to the aesthetic benefits have no doubt make this beautiful new in the world of IT.
On the other hand, for traditional businesses IT vendors, this is not great news that the disintegration of the materials and the same network means customers pay for what they do not need and can control costs very well. Being located in the financial district of San Francisco and is the last week of September 2013, I am surrounded by a show bacchanal of all things with Oracle America's Cup on the Bay, World Oracle west blocking streets and later southern full concert at Giants Stadium - all supported by Oracle customers in one way or another.
The specific details of the benefits of open computing:
Cost of matter
All material is removed as vanity. No cases of shiny with bright logos. Not only add cost, but also restrict the flow of air which leads to the need for a more expensive cooling. Furthermore, shiny case makes it more difficult to carry out maintenance and service. Also - what is critical to system performance. No bells and whistles included due to the need to respond to all cases of use of traditional materials manufacturers.
Improved reliability
Since the key is included and the components have been optimized to use less material there to fail. In addition, the test may be more rigorous and tailored for a specific use.
Reduction in operating costs
Less energy used is equal to the cost. Furthermore, the increased reliability and optimized configurations mean the technical server relationship can be much more.
Scalability and fast cycle update
The disintegration of the system means that the most important components, such as processors and memory can exchange modularized "sleds" that can be added to the scale or replaced to new technology occurs. Consider the cycle of processor technology upgrades every 12-18 months. However, to buy a ready to use many businesses close in server technology with a payback period of three years for all the server that prevents updates.
Better for the environment
· Equipment Less material beforehand also means less waste and on the road.
· Drastic reduction of energy consumption for operations.
If your IT strategy of the company is not in compliance with the Open Compute Project guidelines Specifically, there are two possibilities:
1. The good results are traditional OEM business servers become more sensitive because of the benefits of total customer costs
Two. The less positive result is that the traditional OEM server and network equipment companies will have to increase their prices, as they lose business to continue to pay for their yachts, concerts and golf tournaments.
All the operations of Enterprise IT and procurement professionals should closely monitor the evolution of the IT project open and use the information to challenge the internal operations and suppliers to do better.
The concept of open technology development of computer technology is a positive development that will allow multiple benefits to many stakeholders to the end component manufacturers to the final consumers of the services or products. The biggest impact will be for traditional hardware, but certainly fit as the market dictates. Smart Professionals should begin following the evolution of open hardware. Although it may seem now that the benefits go mainly to large companies, this change will be beneficial even relatively small computer users are aware....