THE FUTURE IS OPEN SOURCE
enough to help grow “ tonnes ” of tomatoes every year in a single greenhouse , while even further reducing the carbon footprint of the data centres .
THE FUTURE IS OPEN SOURCE
“ Over the last three years , we ’ ve seen open source adoption move from cloud service providers into telecoms and now down again into the large scale enterprise . As with most hardware cycles , open source adoption takes time . It ’ s not like a software update I can download and have up and running in an afternoon ,” Helvie reflects ” to “ Over the last three years , we ’ ve seen open source adoption move from cloud service providers into telecoms and now down again into the large scale enterprise ,” reflects Helvie . As with most hardware cycles , open source adoption takes time . It ’ s not like a software update I can download and have up and running in an afternoon .” However , the pace of adoption the OCP is experiencing in the enterprise space is faster than expected . “ It ’ s still a relatively new idea , this approach to buying open hardware and using open source concepts . It ’ s really interesting to watch this industry shift from open software towards open hardware and how it ’ s impacting the data centre .”
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