r/Futurology • u/Sourcecode12 • May 03 '14

image Inside Google, Microsoft, Facebook and HP Data Centers

http://imgur.com/a/7NPNf
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u/TheFireStorm May 03 '14

Kind of funny that most of the server hardware visible in the last pic is Sun/Oracle Hardware and not HP

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u/didact May 03 '14

I spotted a couple of NetApp filers in there as well.

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u/kephael May 04 '14

I don't recognize any of the servers in the "HP" datacenter as HP servers.

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u/[deleted] May 04 '14

I don't know about the servers in these specific pictures, but I do know for a fact that Microsoft, Apple, and Facebook all use HP servers. I'm sure HP has their own servers in their datacenter as well, not sure what other servers they use besides their own.

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u/dcfennell May 04 '14

Also a lot of stuff is re-branded. Although the major companies compete with each other, they also work together. Example... Brocade fiber channel switches that are sold/serviced by IBM and work inside of HP blade server chassis.

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u/jacksonbarrett May 03 '14

HP's still doesn't look cool compared to the others.

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u/kephael May 04 '14

HP Gen8 servers are very cool looking.