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Facebook’s Response to Greenpeace
February 20th, 2010 : Rich Miller
The environmental group Greenpeace International says Facebook should rethink plans for its new Oregon data center and is urging Facebook users to join a group calling for the new facility to run entirely on renewable energy. Read More
Facebook Responds on Coal Power in Data Center
February 17th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Facebook has responded to growing criticism of its reliance upon its power choices for its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. This is one of the first cases in which a data center's energy sourcing has attracted this kind of public attention, but it won't be the last. Read More
Facebook’s Explosive Groundbreaking
January 25th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Forget the hard hats and shovels. When it came time to really break ground for its new Oregon data center, the Facebook team used 6,000 pounds of explosives to do some serious earth moving. Read More
It’s Official: Facebook is Oregon’s Company X
January 21st, 2010 : Rich Miller
Facebook's first company-built data center will be in Prineville, Oregon, the company confirmed today. Facebook says the 147,000 square foot Prineville data center will be designed to LEED Gold standards and is expected to have a Power Usage Effectiveness (PUE) rating of 1.15. Read More
Facebook to Build Its Own Data Centers
January 20th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Facebook has decided to begin building its own data centers, and may announce its first facility as soon as tomorrow. The fast-growing social network has previously leased server space from wholesale data center providers. Read More
How Many Servers Can One Admin Manage?
December 30th, 2009 : Rich Miller
How many servers or users can one admin can manage? The question is being discussed today at Slashdot. Here are some factoids about admin/server ratios at Facebook and Microsoft. Read More
Should Servers Come With Batteries?
November 27th, 2009 : Rich Miller
Will the data center of the future have no central UPS units, and be filled with servers with on-board batteries? The data center team at Facebook believes it should. Read More
Facebook Follows Google to Data Center Savings
November 27th, 2009 : Rich Miller
[caption id="attachment_18889" align="aligncenter" width="470" caption="A graphic of the new data center power distribution system being implemented at Facebook, which replaces a central UPS with a battery built into the power supply."][/caption] Facebook is stepping up its efforts to make its data centers cheaper and more efficient, and is following in the footsteps of Google in several of its key initiatives. Facebook says it's streamlining its servers, and also plans to adopt a novel power distribution design pioneered by Google. Read More
Roundup: Force 10 Networks, Avocent, Facebook
November 23rd, 2009 : John Rath
A roundup of news from Interop, including announcements from Force 10 Networks, AFORE Solutions, Sun Microsystems and Avocent. Also, new data and news on social networks Facebook, Twitter and MySpace. Read More