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Intel, Facebook Accelerate Datacenters With FPGAs

Intel Corp.'s plan to combine its next Xeon processor with a batch of field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) along with ongoing collaboration with Facebook aims to accelerate a growing ...Full Article

Facebook’s ‘Building Blocks’ Mantra Includes Intel

Facebook executives touted the advantages of its datacenter "building blocks" approach during the Open Compute Project (OCP) summit as a way to achieve flexibility and faster scaling. Meanwhile, it ...Full Article

Open Compute Expands Switch Offerings

The networking branch of the Open Compute Project announced a pair of new standard switches this week along with plans in the upcoming year to focus on faster networking ...Full Article

Are Breaches Killing Flash?

Mozilla added the Flash Player Plugin to its roster of blocked add-ons, after yet another security alert from developer Adobe and following a public call for the end of ...Full Article

Wind Will Power New Facebook Datacenter

Facebook announced this week its fifth datacenter under construction in Fort Worth, Texas, would be powered by renewable energy sources, including wind. The social media giant said the new ...Full Article

Facebook Combines OSquery Tool With RocksDB

Facebook reported progress this week toward integrating its open source osquery tool with the open source RocksDB that serves as an embedded database to store and speed up access ...Full Article

U.S. Enlists Facebook Vet as IT Chief

Stung by a series of high-profile IT foul-ups related to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and the roll out of the healthcare.gov web site, the Obama administration has ...Full Article

Facebook Opens Up Osquery Tool

The hyperscale datacenter operators take a lot from the open source software community to run their businesses, but they also give back. Facebook has opened up its server, storage, ...Full Article

Facebook Gives Lessons In Network-Datacenter Design

Every now and again, the hyperscale datacenter operators tell the world about some new tricks they have come up with to solve a particular set of pesky problems, and ...Full Article

Facebook Opens Up Tools To Scale Memcached

When a back-end database can't serve up bits of data fast enough to deal with the hit load on the web servers that sit in front of it, the ...Full Article
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