One of the most common questions we’re asked about hardware reliability is whether there’s a real difference between the various storage manufacturers. This information is typically locked up...
Hard drive failure rates point to clear winners and losers in 2014
Web caching: Facebook’s Problem of a Thousand Servers
Distributed computing systems at extreme scale are governed by a different set of rules than small-scale systems. One of the differences Facebook has discovered is the role...
What Pundits Think: Cloud Predictions 2015
While some trends in the cloud market in 2015 will signal maturity – trends like consolidation and cloud service portfolio pruning, for example – some are shifts...
Top 10 Data Center Predictions for 2015
Ron Vokoun DBIA, LEED AP BD+C, leads the Mission Critical Market for at JE Dunn Construction. With the arrival of a new year, organizations are making plans...
The Facebook Data Center FAQ
With more than 900 million active users, Facebook is the busiest site on the Internet and has built an extensive infrastructure to support this rapid growth. The social networking site...