Thursday, 7 April 2011

Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

The social network breaks an unwritten rule by giving away plans to its new data center—an action it hopes will make the Web more efficient.

Just weeks before switching on a massive, super-efficient data center in rural Oregon, Facebook is giving away the designs and specifications to the whole thing online. In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your server-stuffed data warehouses.



Source: http://feeds.technologyreview.com/click.phdo?i=42423549f82421caea6933c0ecfa849d

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