Hyperscale Titans Team To Scale MySQL
Four of the titans of hyperscale Web applications – Google, Facebook, LinkedIn, and Twitter – have teamed up to create a set of common extensions aimed specifically at running ...Full Article
Facebook Open Sources Datacenter Efficiency Tracking Tools
Companies that operate hyperscale datacenters have gone to great lengths to boost efficiency, and to show their commitment to green computing some of these cloud giants are sharing their ...Full Article
Using Flash To Scale In As Well As Up And Out
When people talk about scale in the IT industry these days, more times than not they mean one of two things. The first is called scale up, and this ...Full Article
Hyperscale Datacenters To Dominate Server Shipments
The cloud, in its many forms, is changing the nature of servers and storage and is therefore transforming the overall market for systems and storage. Nothing makes this more ...Full Article
Quanta Pushes Foot Inside Enterprise Datacenter Doors
Hyperscale cloud operators like Facebook and Rackspace Hosting came to Taiwanese manufacturer Quanta Computer several years ago when they wanted to design and build custom machines tuned up for ...Full Article
Sneak Peeks At Some Future Open Compute Servers
Events like the Open Compute Summit are like show-and-tell for hardware geeks. It is a chance for system designers, builders, and in this case customers to give their peers ...Full Article
Goldman Sachs And Fidelity Bank On Open Compute
What started out as a desire by Facebook to control its own infrastructure five years ago and evolved into the Open Compute Project to open source hardware and datacenter ...Full Article
Facebook Crafts Cold Storage Library From Blu-ray Discs
Social media giant Facebook has been pushing the limits of cold storage with disk technology, and as it hinted it might be doing a year ago, the company has ...Full Article
AMD Etches “Warsaw” Opterons For Financial Services Friends
AMD is taking a trip down the Opteron 6300 lane one last time with the launch of the "Warsaw" variants of its high-end server processors. The company has been ...Full Article
Facebook Whips Systems Into Shape With Customized Chef
Like many modern corporations that exist mainly to supply a service over the Internet, Facebook would like to use open source software wherever practical in its infrastructure and with ...Full Article
