Facebook has released an analysis detailing its use of flash-based solid state drives (SSDs) in the field over the last four years. These drives averaged many millions of SSD-day usage. Due to the recent advances in flash capacity, SSDs are
At 1.35 billion users and counting with an “always on” site, Facebook’s network infrastructure demands scalability and rapid evolution. Facebook’s network experiences machine to machine traffic several orders of magnitude larger than machine to user traffic, and this traffic is
Semiweekly Tech Updates Facebook Open Sources their Big Sur AI hardware Deep learning, while a small academic field for computational science, is garnering huge interest from companies such as Google, Facebook, and IBM. Deep learning trains machines to recognize patterns
Sometimes the research results get interesting when conducting analysis on various metrics in the industry. Over the last few months, we’ve been talking about the big bad wolf called GAFAN+M. Shockingly, the market valuation for the GAFAN+M jumped about $500B
We’re starting a new blog post series called “The Ugly Truth”, and the purpose of each post is to ask and answer the most difficult question pertaining to our industry. The question is carefully selected, and it reflects the question
For the last few months now, we’ve been tracking the total market cap for GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) – who are the largest Internet companies in their respective industries. From July 2015 to October 2015, GAFAN’s total market
Let’s put a check mark next to Apple, as they join Google in their quest to control the wireless last mile. According to Business Insider, Apple is in talks with carriers to launch an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator) in
According to StreamingMedia, HEVC Advance, a new group that formed a patent pool for licensing HEVC technology, plans on charging something to the effect of 0.5% of gross revenue for HEVC usage, that is retroactive “to the date of first
Although Apple’s market cap dropped $37B from late April to late July, the GAFAN (Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix) Mafia continues to grow like gangbusters, adding a cool ~$150B in valuation in the past three months. Their total combined market
According to a recent Bloomberg article, Apple is “assembling a high speed network” and “upgrading how it builds its data centers” because “Apple wants to own pipes linking its four data centers and Internet” to “ensure fast, reliable delivery of
Did We Get It All Wrong Billions have been invested in cloud infrastructure research, as everyone tries to figure what the future of tech holds. Is it possible that Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and everyone else got it wrong, because of
The Internet has been torn asunder at the news of Verizon buying AOL. The PR machines are on overdrive trying to figure out the reason “why Verizon acquired AOL”. There are dozens of theories on “why the acquisition” and most
Denis O’Brien, the billionaire owner of Digicel, a Caribbean Mobile Operator with 13M customers, recently stated that “Mark Zuckerberg is like the guy who comes to your party and drinks your champagne, and kisses your girls, and doesn’t bring anything”. We disagree
The OpenSSL Project is a collaborative effort driven by a dozen volunteers. They are responsible for developing, maintaining, securing, and managing the OpenSSL software stack. As everyone found out last week, their work is extremely important to all businesses transacting
