Facebook looks to cut storage costs

Mon Apr 6 2009, 08:41 AM

Facebook is investing in its own storage solution, Haystack, in order to ease the social network’s reliance on expensive storage solutions such as Akamai and NetApp. The company expects the new server structure to significantly reduce the cost of storing photos.

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