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Data Centers | Why HP, Dell and IBM Are on the Wrong Side of Internet History
Whereas businesses once purchased servers from these big three to store and transport their digital goods, they’re now choosing to make their own servers and data centers. The server industry is being...
View ArticleHistory | Facebook?! Twitter?! Instagram?! We Did That 40 Years Ago
It all feels so new, doesn't it? Facebook. FaceTime. Google+ hangouts. Hashtagging your memories on Twitter and Instagram. But this holiday season, as you and your enormous collection of Apple gadgets...
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Servers | Facebook Shatters the Computer Server Into Tiny Pieces
Since you last saw Frank Frankovsky, his beard has grown to epic lengths. And it suits him. As the man at the center of Facebook's Open Compute Project, Frankovsky spent the last two years rethinking...
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Storage | Facebook Wants New Breed of Flash Memory for Storing Old Pics
With each passing day, more than 350 million digital photos find their way onto Facebook, joining the more than 240 billion that are already there. Jay Parikh is the man who makes sure all those photos...
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Data Centers | Why Open Source Hardware Is No Oxymoron
"It's time to stop treating data center design like Fight Club," said Jonathan Heiliger, "and demystify the way these things are built." It was April 2011, and Heiliger -- the man who oversaw all the...
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Servers | Cellphone Chips Will Remake the Server World. Period.
Facebook recently ran an experiment. Inside a test lab, somewhere behind the scenes at the world's most popular network, engineers sidled up to a computer server loaded with software that typically...
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Cloud | The End of the Web and Browser As We Know It
It all began with the 'lifestream,' a phenomenon that I predicted in the 1990s and shared in the pages of Wired almost exactly 16 years ago. You can drop files, messages, and conventional websites into...
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Software | Meet the Data Brains Behind the Rise of Facebook
Jay Parikh sits at a desk inside Building 16 at Facebook's headquarters in Menlo Park, California, and his administrative assistant, Genie Samuel, sits next to him. Every so often, Parikh will hear her...
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Security | Apparent Facebook Widget Snafu Brings Down Sites
Several sites across the web could not be reached by some visitors on Thursday afternoon, apparently because of a problem with Facebook widgets embedded in the sites. Several sites -- including...
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Software | Paul Maritz Wants to Sell You ‘Google in a Box’
Paul Maritz wants to sell you "Google in a box." That, he explains, is the aim of the Pivotal Initiative, the new operation he runs inside tech giant EMC.
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Software | Why Hadoop Is the Future of the Database
On Monday, Greenplum -- now owned by tech giant EMC -- revealed that it has spent the last two years building a new Hadoop platform that it believes will leave the traditional database behind. Known as...
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Software | Intel Leaps on Software Elephant for Trip to Hardware Heaven
Like so many others, Intel wants to sell you Hadoop, the open-source software platform that crunches massive amounts of data across a sea of computer servers.
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Software | Facebook Makes Itself a Bit More SPDY
Have you noticed Facebook loading faster recently? It could be because the social network has adopted Google's next generation web protocol, SPDY.
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Storage | Apple and Facebook Flash Forward to Computer Memory of the Future
We don't know much about what goes on in Apple's data centers. But we do know is that Apple is spending mountains of money on a new breed of hardware device from a company called Fusion-io. As a public...
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Servers | Facebook’s Mystery Hardware Maker Expands Worldwide Empire
Who are the world's biggest server sellers? No one really knows.
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Networks | You Can’t Have Google’s Pluto Switch, But You Can Have This
When photos of Google's mystery "Pluto Switch" appeared on the web early last year, it seemed like something from another world -- and not just because Google called it the Pluto Switch. But as alien...
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Google Erects Patent Shield for the Open Source Internet
Behind the scenes, just about all of the web's biggest names are mimicking Google. That includes Facebook, Yahoo, eBay, Twitter, and so many more.
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Cloud | How Google Remade the Computer Science Researcher
John Wilkes spent a year negotiating his move to Google, and when he finally agreed to join the company, he still didn't know what he'd be working on.
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Data Centers | Facebook Lets You Spy on Its Data Centers
If you walk into the lobby of the data center Facebook operates in the high desert in Prineville, Oregon, you'll find a flatscreen display on the wall where you can check the pulse of this massive...
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Servers | IBM Prepares to Eject Self from World of Internet Servers
IBM makes more money from the sale of computer servers than any other company on earth. And yet the tech giant still wants to gut its server operation, selling a vast swath of the thing to Lenovo, the...
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