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The Infra Behind Facebook’s ‘Look Back’ Videos
FACEBOOK In February this year, Facebook launched the ‘Look Back’ videos, which enabled users to generate one-minute videos that highlight memorable photos and posts from their time on Facebook. Hundreds of millions of videos were shared. It was an engineering feat, considering that the feature was conceptualized and deployed in less than a month. From figuring out capacity, to power usage to how to make it happen without any disruptions to the platform, here’s how the Facebook team did it.
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F5’s Product Development Lab Starts Monitoring Energy
F5 Networks, Inc. is the global leader in Application Delivery Networking, helping organizations successfully deliver applications to users anywhere at any time. F5’s main product development lab was running out of power and cooling capacity and needed a way to easily monitor and manage how effectively both were being utilized. F5 team chose Raritan’s DCIM energy monitoring software, Power IQ (PIQ), and environmental sensors to address these challenges. Kiel Anderson, Senior Lab Network Engineer at F5 says, “The largest improvement that I see is being able to monitor power usage in our lab and making sure that our PDUs don’t get overloaded.”
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Speedy “Good” Solutions are Often Better than Delayed “Best” Solutions
MG Raghuraman, CIO, Mphasis advises young IT professionals to not be paralyzed by the analysis of solutions. Find a ‘great-to-start-with’ solution and secure quick gains, and then build or modify as required.
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The new metric: Data Center Energy Productivity (DCeP) |
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The new metric is an attempt to offer a more complete measure of data center efficiency. DCeP, as defined by a global taskforce from The Green Grid, quantifies the ‘useful work’ that a data center produces based on the amount of energy it consumes. |
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Cloud no less secure than own data centers: Cloud Security Report 2014 |
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Alert Logic’s Spring 2014 Cloud Security Report says that the top three incident classes for on-premises data centers were malware/botnet, brute force and vulnerability scans. For cloud hosting providers, these were brute force, vulnerability scans and web application attacks.
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IT professionals putting data centers at risk |
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The 2014 State of IT Changes study by audit software vendor Netwrix says that 57% of IT professionals have made undocumented changes that no one else in the data center knows about.
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VMware to invest USD 500 million in India |
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This investment will be over three years as the company aims to further strengthen its position in India’s fast maturing virtualization and cloud computing market.
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Tough times ahead for smaller cloud players in Asia |
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With major cloud vendors in the region dropping their prices for core services, small players will face a tough time says Chris Morris of IDC Asia-Pacific. They will either be acquired or shut shop. This will drive consolidation amongst the cloud vendors.
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