Structure 2014 recap: enterprises take to the cloud, though challenges abound
This year’s Structure conference had speakers discussing the rapid adoption of the cloud by enterprises, security and privacy issues, and why they are embracing openness.
Facebook’s Open Compute guru Frank Frankovsky leaves to build optical storage startup
Frank Frankovsky, one of the men responsible for Facebook’s foray into building hardware, has left the social networking giant to form his own startup.
How Facebook plans to make internet.org happen
In a 70-page white paper released Monday, Facebook, Qualcomm and Ericsson tried to connect the app and cloud world with carriers as part of the internet.org effort. Even if this doesn’t bring broadband to all, it’s a necessary conversation.
If Facebook’s internet.org effort really wants to shake things up it should bypass the carriers
Facebook’s internet.org coalition wants to connect the rest of the world. But can it make transmitting mobile data more efficient or will it merely shift the costs around?
Heck yeah! Facebook’s Open Compute Project is making an open source switch
Not content with open sourcing the server and storage hardware inside data centers, Facebook’s Open Compute Project has teamed up with others to build an open source top of rack switch. Here’s why it matters.
Data center rivals Facebook and Google pump $700M in new construction into Iowa
Facebook confirmed a data center in Altoona, Iowa, the same day Google said it would also expand its data center operations in the state. As Facebook pushes transparency, it’s also pushing the notoriously secretive Google.
CloudFlare is trying to fight DDoS attacks by designing its own gear
Web performance and security startup CloudFlare isn’t as big as Google or Facebook, but it does handle a lot of traffic. And now, like its larger peers, the company is designing its own gear to solve it own unique brand of problems.
Podcast: Facebook’s Graph-ic search, Open Compute is kinda cool, Netflix v. TWC
Are Facebook friends a better way to find stuff? Open Compute spawns a sweet new server, but Netflix Open Connect is not sweet for Time Warner Cable.
Why Facebook might put Blu-ray to use on big data
Facebook is looking at almost all options to address the storage needs of its myriad applications that all have different requirements around performance, scalability and efficiency. Flash can be too fast and hard drives to slow, but Facebook wants something just right.