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 »
Google just finished off another record-setting quarter and year for infrastructure spending, according to the company’s earnings report released last week. The web giant spent more than $3.5 billion on “real… Read more »
The new OpenPower Foundation sanctioned Power S824L server comes loaded with IBM’s POWER8 processor and Nvidia’s GPU accelerator and will be aimed at the webscale crowd. 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 »
We spill a lot of digital ink talking about the chips that will displace Intel’s in the data center, but the chip giant isn’t ceding that ground without a fight. Read more »
The name pretty much says it all: WebScaleSQL. That’s the new open source project Facebook announced on Thursday, which includes early contributions from other web giants that have pushed MySQL to… 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 »
At Structure: Europe 2013, New Relic Founder Lew Cirne, Kleiner Perkins General Partner Michael Abbott (former Twitter engineering VP) and North Bridge General Partner Jonathan Heiliger (former Facebook engineering VP) spoke… Read more »
Will web giants soon follow in Apple’s footsteps with the iPhone, and design specialty silicon for the servers running their operations? An AMD executive thinks that day is around the corner. Read more »
Applied Micro, a chip company with a market cap of $500 million, is set to take on Intel and AMD with the first 64-bit, ARM-based server part that mimics an entire… Read more »