After launching an open server and data center design in April, Facebook is prepping for version 2.0 of its hardware, and huge server buyers are playing along. From Rackspace to major… Read more »
We’ve seen video tours of Facebook data centers, and we’ve seen how Google destroys old storage on an industrial scale. Amazon tends to be far more reticent about the setup that… Read more »
Jonathan Heiliger, Facebook’s vice president of Technical Operations, has been the Palo Alto-based web giant’s public face when it comes to all things infrastructure. And today he announced that he would… Read more »
Facebook is being praised for openly sharing information about its energy-efficient data center in Oregon that is usually kept secret. One specific efficiency metric, power usage effectiveness (PUE), is worth noting… Read more »
While Michael Dell is bummed he didn’t see the tablet revolution coming, he’s also not sweating it much, apparently. In an interview with the Wall Street Journal, the CEO of Dell… Read more »
Last week’s Open Compute project announcement sparked lots of conversation, much of which still echos around the server and data center communities. At first glance, a tiny team inside Facebook appears… Read more »
Facebook has opened its high-efficiency data center server and facility designs to the rest of the world. But how useful can one Web giant’s integrated efficiency system be for the rest… Read more »
Today’s big news has got to be Facebook’s unveiling of their Open Compute Project; open reference designs for highly efficient servers, and the data centers they sit in. There’s been a flood… Read more »