Gregory Breads, Product Manager
DIRAK, Inc.

Screws, nuts and bolts are a very basic method used for attaching costly electronic equipment to racks. They effectively hold the panel to the rack frame, but often become loose during transportation, or dropped and lost during maintenance. The result? Loose nuts and bolts falling onto and damaging sensitive and costly electronic equipment.  MORE

Justin Moll, VP, US Market Development
Pixus Technologies

The other day, I was speaking with a prime contractor about an old project. His company loved their open system xTCA design, but they ultimately went with a proprietary server blade approach.  It wasn’t so much price/performance, they were happy with the open system. In the end (all else being equal), it largely came down to aesthetics.  That was a bit unexpected! I got to thinking of why a customer would choose a proprietary solution over an open solution.  MORE