Why Facebook's new open datacenter plans means better services for all of us

Frank Frankovsky, Director, Technical Operations at Facebook, talks to me about the Open Compute Project, which is a new Open Source foundation that lets companies that build data centers share their plans with each other and standardize around a very low-power data center plan.

This means better services for all of us, because now companies can build highly-efficient datacenters that can pack in even more machines, which means more features for all of us.

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• datacenter
• facebook
• internet
• infrastructure

[Scobleizer]

Ryguy1450: this guy runs operations, he's not the appropriate one to ask about who invested, etc.

[basmithtx]

@Ryguy1450 That doesn't really make sense to me. Facebook doesn't particularly need the money, and the drawbacks for the CIA having some sort of special investment relationship with Facebook seems greater than any marginal benefit. Just another nutty conspiracy IMO. The CIA can gather intel just fine without misallocating public funds like that.

[delerium2k]

@Ryguy1450 you're thinking of InQTel, that's open knowledge that they're investors, nothing secret there

[Ryguy1450]

Hey Scoble, Leo Laporte says CIA is a huge investor in Facebook. Is that true? Why didn't you ask that guy about that?

[FinbarrMcCarthy]

Interesting project, I didnt know about open compute and I am impressed that Facebook are behind it.

[szabiakanich]

Fantastic interview. You can see on the guy's face that he's totally into it/passionate about his job. Great questions, great answers, just a great conversation. Thanks for doing these :) Can't get enough of them. Watching each and everyone of them since I found out about this channel. (via your Google+ that is)