Efficiency is a priority at the core of Facebook's capability to scale, according to Jason Taylor, the company's vice president of infrastructure. There are never more than five types of servers in use at any of Facebook's data centers, located in five different regions, and no servers or infrastructure sit dormant waiting for services to launch, Taylor told analysts yesterday at the Credit Suisse Technology Conference.
Audit, tax and advisory firm KPMG LLP Wednesday announced that it has named financial services technology veteran Harry Moseley as its new CIO. He succeeds the retiring Richard Anderson.
Business adoption of Windows 8 won't happen overnight and will likely involve a gradual phasing in alongside Windows 7 rather than a wholesale enterprise-wide swap-out of one operating system for the other, according to Microsoft's chief marketing officer for Windows.
A senior Microsoft executive said the company has sold 40 million licenses for Windows 8, essentially matching the first month performance of Windows 7 in late 2009. Analysts tried to divide what she meant by "sold."
Microsoft has sold 40 million Windows 8 licenses since Oct. 26 when the new operating system became available.
After Microsoft's chief operating officer last week said the company was going to change the Windows business model, analysts tried to figure out exactly what he meant.
Microsoft may revert to separate release schedules for consumer and business versions of Windows, the company's top OS executive hinted this week.