Facebook has begun building a second huge server farm in Lulea, Sweden, and has totally reworked its data center design for the project, embracing factory-built components with IKEA-style lean construction techniques.
Elliott Management has raised the bid for Riverbed to $3.3 billion, and Intel invests in big data and cloud companies in China.
Facebook is working on ways to streamline its data center construction, but it hasn't yet decided whether to go the Lego route or try the IKEA approach. The goal is to create a repeatable design for a "Rapid Deployment Data Center" that can work...
Facebook has developed a storage system that packs 1 petabyte of data into a single cabinet filled with 10,000 Blu-Ray optical discs. The company sees potential for Blu-Ray to lower the cost of cold data storage.