LinkedIn (acquired by Microsoft)

LinkedIn's Yuval Bachar, one of the primary driving forces behind Open19, explains the effort at Data Center World.

The people behind the standard are hoping to solve some of the biggest obstacles to the edge infrastructure buildout.

Says will open-source hardware platform, including network switch, power shelf, and cabling system, in coming weeks and months.

It’s easy to look at the new Open19 data center rack standard initiative spearheaded by LinkedIn as competition for the Open Compute Project. It does have some of the same vendors involved; in particular, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, which has said...

Its licensing framework is one of the key differences between LinkedIn’s data center tech foundation and OCP.

Why the giant wants to standardize edge compute for industrial IoT on Open19