This is the first of a two-part exclusive on Facebook’s involvement with and creation of open source technologies. For these articles, we spoke with two of Facebook’s open source gurus, David Recordon and Amir Michael, about how the company is opening its infrastructure to other developers and organizations… Tweet This Post

Centrify, a company securing on-premise and cloud servers, raised $16 million in their fourth round of funding yesterday, led by Index Ventures. The company provides a single sign-on for access to servers in addition to management solutions… Tweet This Post

One of the little-known facts about social game giant Zynga is that it is one of the biggest operators of cloud computing infrastructure, built to support its current customer base of more than 281 million monthly active users… Tweet This Post

CloudFlare is on fire. The plucky startup, which aims to speed up and protect any website, announced today that it has added seven additional data centers in the US, Europe and Asia. CloudFlare now boasts a total of 12 data centers around the world “at the Internet’s strategic points… Tweet This Post

Apple’s huge new data center in North Carolina is getting a little brother. According to Data Center Knowledge, Apple is building a new data center in Santa Clara, CA. Data Center Knowledge reports that “Apple signed a seven-year lease for 2… Tweet This Post

The new data centers are far larger and more efficient than what is offered by enterprise hosting operations. That’s something we hear a lot more about. It comes down in many respects to scalability and elasticity of a cloud-based data centers that operate on commodity infrastructures… Tweet This Post

Datacenters. What’s all the fascination about? To some degree, we can thank Facebook’s OpenCompute project. Facebook put data centers in a new light with its huge promotion efforts and declarations to open its data center design… Tweet This Post

Looking to expand its presence in the cloud, Apple has reportedly hired Kevin Timmons, the former head of Data Center Services at Microsoft, whose departure from the company was confirmed to Data Center Knowledge… Tweet This Post

As we reported earlier, Facebook open-sourced its data center specifications and practices today. The infrastructural details of Facebook’s new Pineville, OR data center can now be found on the Open Compute Project website… Tweet This Post

To increase the power efficiency of its data centers, Facebook decided to build its the servers for its Pineville, Ore., data center from scratch. And it looks like the plan worked. Facebook’s latest data center in Oregon will use 38 percent less energy than the rest of its data centers and will cost 24 percent [...]

It is inevitable for any considerable enterprise to consider how the cloud and the data center can be combined in the most dynamic, efficient and secure way as possible. It’s a decision making process that gets even more complex when considering the dizzying terminology that makes sense only after considerable conversation… Tweet This Post

Here’s the latest action we’re following on the GreenBeat today: BrightSource Energy raises $1.75 million — According to an SEC filing, the solar thermal pcompany, which is a rumored IPO candidate this year, has raised a small round of cash… Tweet This Post