08/10/2012
Facebook inova construindo seus próprios computadores, comprando as partes diretamente de fornecedores chineses, modificando a ideologia de Datacenters. Soluções abertas são desenvolvidas, aplicadas e redistribuídas, tornando o custo de toda a estrutura o mais baixo possível.
Facebook is one of the world's biggest buyers of computers, and has to think hard about what its data centers will look like. Its answer is to design and build its own systems, then give other manufacturers a price target to hit. So far: Advantage to cheap Taiwanese suppliers. That may change.