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Facebook To Use Cold Storage At Prineville Data Center For Old Photos

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 22 Feb 2013 14:27:28 +0000

Facebook uses so many resources just to save the 240 billion-plus photos that are on the social network. Now the company is utilizing cold storage at its Prineville, Ore., data center to make sure older photos can be as easily accessed as the ones users uploaded five minutes ago.

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Facebook Photo Storage Is No Easy Task

Justin Lafferty — Wed, 16 Jan 2013 14:50:17 +0000

Facebook is more than a social network. It’s also increasingly becoming the place where people store their photos for easy sharing. At the Open Compute Summit Wednesday in Santa Clara, Calif., Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh (pictured) talked about how the company works to store the more than 240 billion photos on the social network.

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Open Compute Foundation Taps Cole Crawford As COO

David Cohen — Fri, 16 Nov 2012 15:36:51 +0000

The Open Compute Foundation welcomed a new chief operating officer: Cole Crawford, who has been involved in the open-source sector since 1992, holding positions at OpenStack and Nebula, as well as advising the Linux Foundation.

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