Tag: facebook
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When Web Companies grow up they turn into Java Shops
Earlier this month I attended Pivotal’s SpringOne platform conference in Las Vegas. In case you’re not familiar with it, Spring is a Java Framework “that helps development teams everywhere build simple, portable, fast and flexible JVM-based systems and applications.” For some of you out there you may be thinking Java is old school and not relevant in in today’s…
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Hadoop World: Talking HBase with Facebook’s Jonathan Gray
At Hadoop World, Facebook’s Jonathan Gray gave two talks: HBase Roapmap, and Building Realtime Big Data Services at Facebook with Hadoop and HBase. While I wasn’t able to attend the sessions, at the end of the conference I was able to catch up with the man himself. Here’s what he had to say: Some of the…
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A walk thru Facebook’s HQ on Open Compute day
Last Thursday a group of us from Dell attended and participated in the unveiling of Facebook’s Open Compute project. Much the way open source software shares the code behind the software, the Open Compute project has been created to provide the specifications behind the servers and the data center. By releasing these specs, Facebook is…
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Rackspace’s head of OpenStack talks about Facebook’s Open Compute
This morning at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto the company announced their Open Compute project Partners and kindred spirits were there to tell the story behind Open Compute and explain what they think it means to the industry. One group of kindred spirits were the individuals from Rackspace. I got some time with Jim Curry…
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Frank Frankovsky of Facebook talks about Open Compute — how they got there and where they go from here
Former Dell DCS dude Frank Frankovsky has been at Facebook for about 18 months. Frank is Facebook’s Director, Hardware Design and Supply Chain and since he arrived, he has been heavily involved in the Open Compute project. Today was the big day when Open Compute made its worldwide debut. Frank represented Facebook on the panel…
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Forrest Norrod of Dell on Open Compute
This morning, at Facebook’s headquarters in Palo Alto, the company unveiled the Open Compute project. Also on hand to support the announcement were partners such as Dell and Intel, who served on a panel alongside representatives from Rackspace, the Department of Energy, Zynga and Facebook. Forrest Norrod, GM of Dell’s server platform division represented Dell…
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Facebook, OpenCompute and Dell
Today at its headquarters in Palo Alto, Facebook and a collection of partners such as Dell, Intel and AMD — as well as kindred spirits like RackSpace’s founder (the company behind OpenStack) and the CIO of the Department of Energy — are on hand to reveal the details behind Facebook’s first custom-built data center and…
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My interview on the Windows Azure team blog — The Cloud will go away
Earlier this month an interview I did with Robert Duffner, Director of Product management for Windows Azure, went live on the Windows Azure team blog. Robert asked me a variety of questions about Cloud security, how I see the Cloud evolving, the pitfalls of the cloud, where Dell plays etc. I was pleasantly surprised to…
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El Reg love: “Dell’s DCS is a big shiny server star”
Timothy Prickett Morgan of everyone’s favorite vulture-branded media site The Register attended a round table discussion we held a few weeks ago in New York. His piece from that event, which was focused around the cloud, was posted yesterday. You should check out the whole article but here are some snippets to whet your appetite:…
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An overview of the worldwide gaming market
Dell’s Data Center Solutions (DCS) group has both custom offerings and, as we announced a couple of months ago, a new line of systems and solutions targeted at a wider audience. One the the key markets we are looking at for our new line is gaming. To get up to speed on the market I…