Non-profit to take over hosting and management of OpenSwitch project

Social network’s infrastructure team rethinks its strategy so it can scale better

Plans to deploy Pigeon switching platform at upcoming Oregon data center

Consolidation into parent company’s facilities takes more than one year

Social network’s future Oregon data center to feature next-gen power distribution, cooling system

Kafka tackled two problems: integrating disparate data sources and prepping it for real-time stream processing

LinkedIn plans to add another data center next year to support its continued growth. In its quarterly earnings call last week, LinkedIn said it intends to open a new facility to complement sites in Virginia and Texas.

LinkedIn, the social network for business, continues to expand its data center infrastructure to support its rapid growth. The company signed a $116 million, 11-year lease for a large chunk of data center space in Dallas.

The business-focused social network LinkedIn plans to raise an additional $1 billion, and will use some of the funding to expand its infrastructure. That's bound to be good news for one or more data center providers.

The business-focused social network LinkedIn is expanding its Internet infrastructure to help manage its surging traffic. The company is opening a new data center in northern Virginia, where it has leased a large chunk of space from data center...