FACEBOOK popular social networking site recently announced the construction of their data centers as part of an ambitious prgoram Open Compute Project.
Over the last seven years, FACEBOOK still renting data center so it does not have the flexibility for the company. VP Technical FACEBOOK, Jon Heilinger, associate the condition is like his first apartment, where the owner freed him to paint the walls with any color as long as the white family.
Therefore, since one year ago, FACEBOOK worked hard to build their own data centers in the area of Prineville, Oregon. Palo Alto-based company that claims their data centers to increase efficiency in data centers up to 38 percent while lowering the total cost by 24 percent.
"We found many things that we do not actually need from a data center. So we make reforms so that the user could be better," explained the CEO Mark Zuckerberg, at a press conference held on campus in Palo Alto FACEBOOK.
"FACEBOOK trying to develop the ecosystem so developers can easily build startup," lid Zuckerberg, as quoted by the Straits Times, Friday (8/4/2011).
Chairman and founder of Rackspace hosting services giant, Graham Weston, claiming that the design of data center FACEBOOK is a big leap, because it is much simpler, cheaper and environmentally friendly. "I think this is the largest cost reduction for infrastructure servers in the last decade," he said.
Source: okezone.com
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