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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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Search Through Your Facebook History With Archify

Justin Lafferty — Fri, 30 Nov 2012 19:51:08 +0000

So you remember a funny picture or a witty post from a Facebook friend, but you can’t recall when or which friend. Archify, which launched earlier this week, seeks to solve this problem by allowing users to easily search through their Facebook histories and see which of their friends and pages are the most active. Users can even access their Facebook histories from their Gmail accounts.

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Do-It-Yourself: Facebook Building Storage Hardware

David Cohen — Fri, 24 Feb 2012 15:25:58 +0000

Facebook is expanding into hardware, and we’re not talking about wrenches and pliers: The social network is building its own storage hardware to store uploads from its user base.

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Facebook Storage Supplier Fusion-io Will IPO

Jackie Cohen — Wed, 09 Mar 2011 13:21:54 +0000

Fusion-io filed for an initial public offering today. This storage company powers much of Facebook’s data center in Prineville, Oregon, and will soon do the same for the facility under construction in Rutherford County, North Carolina.
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