Facebook’s social network is free, but that does not mean that the company’s 1.2 billion users do not have expectations for uptime and durability of the photos and videos they store on the service.

Facebook has become a huge repository of photographs, and it is heavily used, as images are downloaded, shared and re-shared. With two billion photos shared each day on Facebook services, the company ...

The following content is from an older version of this website, and may not display correctly. When you are in charge of a data center infrastructure for a company like Facebook's, you are faced with ...

Facebook already built its own data center and its own servers. And now the social-networking giant is building its own storage hardware -- hardware for housing all the digital stuff uploaded by its ...

Facebook has a live streaming feature, and the recorded video data can be viewed even after the live broadcast has ended. It has been revealed that the storage period for this video data will be ...

With each passing day, more than 350 million digital photos find their way onto Facebook, joining the more than 240 billion that are already there. Jay Parikh is the man who makes sure all those ...

Facebook’s hardware guru thinks Blu-ray discs might have a brighter future in the data center than in consumers’ homes. We wrote on Wednesday about how Facebook has developed a prototype storage ...

Facebook today announced three new mobile app features aimed at helping its users better "create and save memories," with a launch in India first and then rolling out to the global community "shortly ...

Facebook has updated its Moments photo-sharing app with a trio of new features including “joinable moments” aimed at helping you connect with non-users, and a new tab that lets you save an unlimited ...