Open19 expects a “Year of Adoption”

The Open19 Foundation designated 2019 the Year of Accelerated Adoption for its Open19 specification, which defines four server profiles, based on a standard 19-inch rack. Open19 expects the specification to be the basis of flexible and economic data center and edge solutions for facilities of many sizes and densities.

At the organization’s May 2019 summit, Yuval Bachar, president of the Open19 Foundation and principal engineer of data center architecture at LinkedIn, told Data Center Knowledge that Open19 gear has been deployed at scale in the social network’s facilities in Oregon and Texas. In addition, two mega data centers are running proofs of concept and six other companies are deploying or evaluating Open19 technology.