Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
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Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#2Pretty interesting. I love how bespoke data centers are converging along very similar lines. I'm sure if you were inside a Microsoft, Google, Amazon, or Facebook data center you would recognize the new design touch points. The old data center is dead, long live the new data center.
This was the second big thing Google had learned early on: "The equipment is reduced to its basics so it runs cooler. It can also be easily accessed and repaired quickly." -- slide 12/17
The whole sheet metal box around a server was a real waste of time if your employees are the only ones accessing the area, and the only reason they want to touch the machine is to repair it. This in contrast to NetApp (where I had worked before) which was busily designing impressive cabinets that would "stand tall" on the raised flooring of the data center.
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#3Do people think Facebook will ever enter the cloud hosting market?
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#4The colour and settings remind me of the movie "Brazil".
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#5Interesting that they aren't using commodity hardware. Is that a myth then? The farms of cheap linux boxes?
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#6Do people think Facebook will ever enter the cloud hosting market?
It seems unlikely considering their acquisition and later shutdown of Parse.
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#7The aesthetic feels like it was meant to be a Bond villain's Arctic lair
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#8Interesting that they aren't using commodity hardware. Is that a myth then? The farms of cheap linux boxes?
These are farms of cheap Linux boxes.
They go out of their way to design and manufacture their own motherboards and equipment[1] to reduce their capital and operational expenses.
While the motherboard and enclosures are probably custom made, the components inside (CPU, memory, etc) are all "commodity".
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#9Interesting that its called "Pinnacle Sweden AB" on Gmaps [0]
[0] https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/Pinnacle+Sweden+AB/@65.6...
Re: Zuck’s photos from Facebook’s futuristic Arctic data center
#10Great photos but the default resolution is frustratingly small. Here are the links to the fullsized versions:
https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1446837... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1446872... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1450070... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1442533... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1446840... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1452461... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1443508... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1448048... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1448073... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1442542... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1452503... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1452440... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1442545... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1452496... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1450042... https://tctechcrunch2011.files.wordpress.com/2016/09/1443528...
