Re: Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

2011-04-12 Thread Dobbins, Roland
On Apr 12, 2011, at 7:06 AM, Bruce Williams wrote: > In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for > Web companies: don't share the secrets of your server-stuffed data warehouses (currently the topmost article in th

Facebook Opens Up Its Hardware Secrets

2011-04-11 Thread Bruce Williams
FYI Just weeks before switching on a massive, super-efficient data center in rural Oregon, Facebook is giving away the designs and specifications to the whole thing online. In doing so, the company is breaking a long-established unwritten rule for Web companies: don't share the secrets of your ser