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Facebook's Steady March To 1 Billion Users

Facebook's Steady March To 1 Billion Users | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it
Facebook announced that it now has 1 billion monthly active users. It's an incredible feat. Very few companies can say they have 1 billion customers.

Most impressive is how linear this progression is.
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The imminent role of ARM as a storage platform?

The imminent role of ARM as a storage platform? | cross pond high tech | Scoop.it

It seems not too long ago that the storage industry was fragmented in terms of the "compute" layer in their storage systems. PowerPC, MIPS, Sparc and other platforms dominated the "pie chart" with x86 occupying a small share. Then something happened - all suppliers moved to x86 as a premise for commoditization of the storage platform. With vendors like Dell now testing low-powered ARM based servers and ARM releasing a 64-bit architecture, the question is how long before ARM becomes the platform of choice for storage vendors?

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