The Efficiency Performance motherboard, built with the Intel® Xeon® E5-2600 processor, was originally code-named the Sandy Bridge-EP motherboard.
Category Archives: Servers
Open Compute Project
We started a project at Facebook a little over a year ago with a pretty big goal: to build one of the most efficient computing infrastructures at the lowest possible cost. We decided to honor our hacker roots and challenge convention by custom designing and building our software, servers and data centers from the ground up – and then share these technologies as they evolve.
via Open Compute Project – Hacking Conventional Computing Infrastructure.
Open Compute Wants to Overhaul Data Center Racks
The Open Rack design, which was unveiled today at the Open Compute Summit in San Antonio, also offers an innovative approach to power management. The design features busbars supplying 12-volt power to servers, eliminating the need for individual power supplies for each server. Open Rack also offers standard interfaces for mechanical and electrical components.
via Open Compute Wants to Overhaul Data Center Racks » Data Center Knowledge.
Trustworthy Internet Movement
The goal of the SSL Labs surveys is to measure the effective security of SSL. After some experimentation with an assessment of substantially all public SSL sites (about 1.5 million of them), we settled on a smaller list of about 200,000 SSL-enabled web sites, based on Alexa’s list of most popular sites in the world. Working with a smaller list is more manageable and allows us to conduct the surveys more often. It also allows us to conduct more thorough analysis to look for application-layer issues that may subvert SSL security. In addition, focusing on popular sites – we believe – gives us more relevant results and also excludes abandoned sites.
AWStats
AWStats is a free powerful and featureful tool that generates advanced web, streaming, ftp or mail server statistics, graphically. This log analyzer works as a CGI or from command line and shows you all possible information your log contains, in few graphical web pages. It uses a partial information file to be able to process large log files, often and quickly. It can analyze log files from all major server tools like Apache log files (NCSA combined/XLF/ELF log format or common/CLF log format), WebStar, IIS (W3C log format) and a lot of other web, proxy, wap, streaming servers, mail servers and some ftp servers.
via AWStats – Free log file analyzer for advanced statistics (GNU GPL)..
Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center
That mission demands a level of reliability that many less remote data centers cannot provide. Raytheon Polar Services held the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic programs support contract until April. As Dennis Gitt, a former director of IT and communications services for the company puts it, a failure anywhere in the Antarctic systems could lose data from events in space that may not be seen again for millennia.
via Coolest jobs in tech (literally): running a South Pole data center.
With a maximum population of 150 at the base during the Austral summer, South Pole IT professionals-in-residence are limited to a select few. And they don’t get to stay long—most of the WIPAC IT team only stays for a few months in the summer, during which they have to complete all planned IT infrastructure projects.
Share your stuff with a link!
We’re super excited to announce a whole new way to share: now you can send a link to the files or folders in your Dropbox!
Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you’ve saved that video of your niece’s birthday party to Dropbox, just make a link to send to grandma and she can simply watch online — no download required! This saves you the hassle of having to re-upload or attach it to an email.
via The Dropbox Blog » Blog Archive » Share your stuff with a link!.
Fault Tolerant Design, True Privacy and Efficient Versioning
Fault Tolerant Design, True Privacy and Efficient Versioning – SpiderOak.com.
Speaking simply in terms of technical proficiency, there exists a dramatic difference between SpiderOak and other back up systems – both online backup and offline solutions. Below we highlight these differences through a discussion of our philosophy and approach.
- True Privacy
- Fault Tolerant Design
- Storage Redundancy Savings
- Efficient Versioning
- Multi-Device – Real Time
- Instant Access from Anywhere
- Sharing… With Safety
- Cross Platform: Mac, Windows, Linux
- Reliability via Comprehensive Test Coverage
- Open Source?
- Encryption Specifications
- User Authentication Process
- Storage Infrastructure
HTML5 roundup: magazine-style Web layouts with CSS regions
The feature allows Web developers to specify that a single body of text should flow through certain regions of the page. For example, you could create several div elements in a specific arrangement and have the overflow text fill those consecutively. Another feature proposed by Adobe, called CSS Exclusions, makes it possible to have inline text automatically wrap and flow to conform with a specific shape.
via HTML5 roundup: magazine-style Web layouts with CSS regions.
ScaleXtreme: Cloud-Based Server Automation
ScaleXtreme is a powerful product that allows you to build, deploy, and manage servers across a variety of different public and private cloud providers.
via Overview | ScaleXtreme: Cloud-Based Server Automation.
From: Accel-Backed ScaleXtreme Takes Data Center Management To The Cloud
ScaleXtreme wants to do the same thing to data automation that Salesforce did to CRM. Replace million-dollar deployments that take months with a five minute download that can have a machine being managed from the cloud in five minutes. And instead of an upfront $1,500 licensing fee per machine, plus maintenance and upgrade fees, ScaleXtreme is shooting for something closer to $150 a year per machine. “This is a radically different model,” says Mulchandani, who started out as an enterprise IT sales guy. “You download the agent and you are done—no sales people, no Italian suits flying across the country.”