Partners Combine Ceph Storage, Flash
An open source option will be combined with flash storage as part of an alliance unveiled this week in a bid to make scale-out storage easier and cheaper. Red ...Full Article
Intel, Facebook Accelerate Datacenters With FPGAs
Intel Corp.'s plan to combine its next Xeon processor with a batch of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with ongoing collaboration with Facebook aims to accelerate a growing ...Full Article
Facebook’s ‘Building Blocks’ Mantra Includes Intel
Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it ...Full Article
Open Compute Expands Switch Offerings
The networking branch of the Open Compute Project announced a pair of new standard switches this week along with plans in the upcoming year to focus on faster networking ...Full Article
Are Breaches Killing Flash?
Mozilla added the Flash Player Plugin to its roster of blocked add-ons, after yet another security alert from developer Adobe and following a public call for the end of ...Full Article
Wind Will Power New Facebook Datacenter
Facebook announced this week its fifth datacenter under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, would be powered by renewable energy sources, including wind. The social media giant said the new ...Full Article
Facebook Combines OSquery Tool With RocksDB
Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access ...Full Article
U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief
Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has ...Full Article
Facebook Opens Up Osquery Tool
The hyperscale datacenter operators take a lot from the open source software community to run their businesses, but they also give back. Facebook has opened up its server, storage, ...Full Article
Facebook Gives Lessons In Network-Datacenter Design
Every now and again, the hyperscale datacenter operators tell the world about some new tricks they have come up with to solve a particular set of pesky problems, and ...Full Article
