On Friday, April 8th, a WSJ article was written about Facebook sharing their server design. A lot of companies like Google Inc. and others keep key details about their computing infrastructure private, but Facebook's move is being done in hopes of a better relationship within the industry. They are calling it the "Open Compute Project" and should encourage industry-wide collaboration around best practices for data-center and server technology. "By sharing this, we will make it more efficient for this ecosystem to grow," said Mark Zuckerberg.
By sharing its designs, Facebook said other companies would be able to focus on applications and developing for social websites. It seems that this move has come as tech giants like Google, Apple and Twitter, are scrambling to build vast new data centers so they can provide computing resources, data-storage capacity and software services to companies and consumers over the Internet.
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