Facebook has been building its own servers and storage gear for years, and last June announced its first-ever networking gear in the form of a top-of-rack switch called “Wedge.” On Wednesday,… Read more »
LinkedIn introduced small but significant changes to its homepage design Thursday, simplifying its newsfeed and highlighting some interaction features that will come to all users next year. The shifts in the… Read more »
Facebook detailed on Friday a new networking technology dubbed Data Center Fabric that coordinates all of the information flowing throughout its new data center in Altoona, Iowa. The Altoona facility is… Read more »
Technology entrepreneurs and investors alike have long regarded commoditization as a dark and dangerous force, a destroyer of high-margin businesses, to be avoided at all costs. An exciting new class of… Read more »
Facebook is upping the ante in the open source world, announcing on Monday a new open source technology for routing data across server caches, and also a new open organization (along… Read more »
Facebook plans to use the security startup’s vCage technology to protect its data centers from malware, unauthorized access and malicious hardware. Read more »
The Fastpass system uses a centralized server called an arbiter that acts as an overseer of the entire network. The arbiter can intelligently select the best routes and times to distribute… Read more »
The Facebook-led Open Compute Project is set to vote on four new specifications that would make open source networking switches and OS software a reality in the near future. Read more »
Cisco on Wednesday unveiled its plans to counter the threats to its business from startups pushing open networking hardware and software built on merchant silicon. What it didn’t do was launch… Read more »
Facebook experiences 1,000 times more traffic inside its data centers than it sends to and receives from outside users. That traffic growth has prompted the social network to design a fabric… Read more »