LinkedIn finds friends to join its 'Open19' data centre standards effort

LinkedIn wants you to brick it in the data centre by following it and its friends with a new standard for data centre hardware that pushes its ambitions to the edge and into competition with the Facebook-derived Open Compute Project. Microsoft's data-harvesting firm first floated the idea of defining data centre hardware last …

[MyffyW]

Welcome back Data Furnace

When that rack of servers is put in your utility room to receive telemetry from your home automation and serve up two-dozen cat videos simultaneously you can now heat your home for "just" the cost of running the hardware.

[GortonSM]

What could possibly ....

".. it appears that Open19 isn't mandating particular servers: if a machine fits into one of the four brick specs, it should get along fine."

After having spent +15 years struggling with manufacturer-specific blade systems from HP, Dell and IBM - what could possibly go wrong?

"It should get along fine" - weeping at their naive optimism .... good luck with that.

[jaffy2]

With that logo, they really need to rename to Open15