Facebook has proposed a new model for designing servers that it says will give businesses more choice in selecting components and a smarter way to upgrade systems when needs change, though it remains to be seen how widely its method will be ...
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Facebook opened an engineering centre in London today, its first outside the US. The London hub, launched by Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, will focus on building Facebook mobile and platform products. "There are 7,000 ...
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Transphorm raises$35m in Series-E financing LED by Japan's INCJ Transphorm Inc of Goleta,near Santa Barbara,CA,USA(which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules)has announced a$35m Series E financing round led by ...
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Facebook is to open a"cold storage"facility at its datacentre in Prineville,Oregon,to provide a lower cost repository for its users'old and infrequently accessed photographs and videos. Further reading The shape of datacentres to ...
IDG News Service-Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the seven petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows,Facebook needs to find cheaper,less power-hungry ...
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At this week's Power Control and Intelligent Motion(PCIM 2012)event in Nuremberg,Germany(8-10 May),Transphorm Inc of Goleta,near Santa Barbara,CA,USA(which designs and delivers power conversion devices and modules)has revealed its latest ...
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