When Facebook was scaling its technologies and pivoting to completely public use in the late 2010s, it started an internal project around data efficiency and scalability. The goal was to end up with a solution that provided scalable resources, efficient compute, and enabled cost savings. In 2011, combined with Intel and Rackspace, the Open Compute Project was launched to enable a set of open standards that could benefit all major industry enterprise players. OCP is also a fluid organization, providing its community a structure that is designed to enable close collaboration on these evolving standards, pushing for 'commodity hardware that is more efficient, flexible and scalable, throwing off the shackles of proprietary one-size-fits-all gear'. OCP also has a certified partner program, allowing external customers...
Mandatory Socialization: Facebook Accounts To be Required for Oculus Headsets
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Hot Chips 31 Live Blogs: Facebook Zion Unified Training Platform
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The Next Generation Open Compute Hardware: Tried and Tested
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28 by Johan De Gelas & Wannes De Smet on 4/28/2015
Facebook To Acquire Oculus VR Inc for $2 Billion
Back in September 2012, a $2.4 million Kickstarter campaign finished to help develop the next wave of immersive gaming in Oculus Rift. The premise behind Oculus Rift is...
46 by Ian Cutress on 3/25/2014
Facebook Announces Home, and HTC First
Today saw some interesting news from Facebook, which announced a new Android experience named Facebook Home, and alongside a new handset from HTC which will run it out of...
21 by Brian Klug on 4/4/2013
Apple Releases Mountain Lion 10.8.2 w/ Facebook Integration
As expected, Apple has released Mountain Lion 10.8.2 today in conjunction with the release of iOS 6. A slightly updated build (12C53) was released to developers last week as...
14 by Saumitra Bhagwat on 9/19/2012
Facebook's "Open Compute" Server tested
Facebook had 22 Million active users in the middle of 2007; fast forward to 2011 and the site now has 800 Million active users, with 400 million of them...
68 by Johan De Gelas on 11/3/2011
The Sims Social Brings Storied Sims Franchise To Facebook
The Sims, the award-winning game from Will Wright and Maxis, has entered the world of social gaming with The Sims Social. "Officially" in open beta as of today, The...
5 by Craig Getting on 8/18/2011
Ask the Experts, Enterprise & Cloud Computing: Answers part 2
Last year we ran a little series called Ask the Experts where you all wrote in your virtualization related questions and we got them answered by experts at Intel...
8 by Johan De Gelas on 7/29/2011
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