With 2.98 billion monthly active users, Facebook is the third-busiest website on the internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support its massive user base. Since it launched its first company-built and -operated server farm in Prineville, Oregon, in April 2011, the social media platform has not stopped building new data centers and seeking new data center sites. Facebook's data centers house tens of thousands of computer servers -- networked together and linked to the outside world through fiber optic cables.
Officials in Prineville, Oregon say they are in discussion with two additional companies about building data centers in the town, where Facebook just opened its first company-built data center.
As Facebook expanded its data center network to Oregon, the data center team ran some large-scale simulations, and used a new software tool to automate the deployment of new server capacity.
After four years of building out the web's fastest-growing infrastructure, Facebook VP of Technical Operations Jonathan Heiliger will be leaving the company.
With today’s launch if the Open Compute Project, the designs and mechanicals for highly-efficient servers designed by Facebook are available to the rest of the world. What’s special about them? Check out our photo gallery, Closer Look: Open...
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.