In a marked departure from industry practice, Facebook is disclosing the designs and specs for its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The social network today launched the Open Compute Project, through which is its releasing the details of its...
Facebook today unveiled details of its new technology infrastructure, which features custom-built servers, racks and UPS units that will fill its new data center in Prineville, Oregon. The facility is optimized from the two-story structure right...
Facebook's appetite for solid-state storage has made it the largest customer for Fusion-io, which this week announced plans for an initial public offering. Facebook's use of SSD aligns with the company's relentless focus on performance and speed.
Is Facebook planning a huge expansion of its data centers? For 2011, the company says it is focused on building its two active projects in Oregon and North Carolina and populating those facilities with servers.
Facebook is seeking a Senior Data Center Operations Manager to run the $450 million data center the company is building in Forest City, North Carolina.
When it named Mark Zuckerberg its Person of the Year, Time got access to one of Facebook's data centers and has put together a photo feature with nine images from inside the equipment area.