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Cisco-threatening open switch coming from Facebook, Intel, and Broadcom

Nov

13

2013

Facebook and friends try to replace proprietary network hardware. Cisco Nexus switches. pchow98 Six months ago, Facebook announced that its Open Compute Project (OCP) would develop a top-of-rack switch that could boot nearly any type of networking software. With the help of Intel, Broadcom, and others, the consortium devoted to open hardware specifications would develop a rival ...

Facebook open sources its SQL-on-Hadoop engine, and the web rejoices

Nov

11

2013

SUMMARY:Facebook has open sourced Presto, a SQL engine it says is on average 10 times faster than Hive for running queries across large data sets stored in Hadoop and elsewhere. Facebook has open sourced Presto, the interactive SQL-on-Hadoop engine the company first discussed in June. Presto is Facebook’s take on Cloudera’s Impala or Google’s Dremel, and ...

Facebook tells how it makes its MySQL cluster ‘almost run itself’

Oct

25

2013

Facebook has one of the largest, if not the largest, MySQL installations in the world, and has created a tool to keep that system online with as little human intervention as possible. It’s called MySQL Pool Scanner and, Facebook’s Shlomo Priymak wrote in a post on Monday describing it, it’s designed to automate ”nearly everything a conventional MySQL ...

Facebook security glitch affected 6 million users, shared email and phone data

Jun

23

2013

photo: Thinkstock SUMMARY:A glitch in Facebook’s system allowed the email addresess or phone numbers of about 6 million Facebook users to have been shared, the company announced in a blog post Friday afternoon. Facebook published a blog post on Friday afternoon explaining a security glitch that caused the email addresses or phone numbers of about ...

Meet Facebook’s new network architecture: it’s a fabric

Jun

23

2013

This was posted originally on Gigaom. SUMMARY:Facebook experiences 1,000 times more traffic inside its data centers than it sends to and receives from outside users. That traffic growth has prompted the social network to design a fabric networking architecture. Facebook, in its quest to serve its more than 1 billion users, has redesigned its network ...

Facebook opens data center filled entirely with servers it designed

Jun

13

2013

Vendor-neutral hardware designs make Facebook data center more efficient. Sweet looking server racks in a Facebook data center. Facebook today opened a new data center in Luleå, Sweden, making it the company’s first in Europe and the first to use only servers designed by Facebook itself. The milestone is a result of Facebook’s two-year-old Open ...

Heck yeah! Facebook’s Open Compute Project is making an open source switch

May

21

2013

photo: Stacey Higginbotham SUMMARY:Not content with open sourcing the server and storage hardware inside data centers, Facebook’s Open Compute Project has teamed up with others to build an open source top of rack switch. Here’s why it matters. The Open Compute Project, which Facebook launched a little more than two years ago, has decided ...

Facebook aims to knock Cisco down a peg with open network hardware

May

12

2013

Facebook’s Open Compute Project to give the world an “open” top-of-rack switch. Facebook already designs its own servers and racks. Next up, Facebook and friends will design switches to compete against Cisco. Facebook Two years ago, Facebook set out to change the server and storage industries by creating freely available hardware designs that gave customers ...

Amazon, Facebook want to hire software-defined networking engineers

Apr

29

2013

photo: Jordan Novet SUMMARY:Amazon and Facebook are looking for engineers to work on deploying next-generation software-defined networks. Amazon’s project could bring new services for its cloud customers. While software-defined networking (SDN) seems to be still stuck in the hype cycle, use cases from service providers and a few enterprises were on display at the Open ...

Facebook throws down efficiency gauntlet with real-time data and open-source dashboards

Apr

22

2013

photo: Facebook screen shot SUMMARY:Following on previous quarterly disclosures on energy and water efficiency, Facebook is unveiling dashboards showing its data centers’ near-real-time performance. When I first visited Facebook’s data center in Prineville, Ore., in 2011, I felt privileged to spot some figures on the facility’s power-usage effectiveness (PUE) on a screen affixed to a ...