At the start of 2011, investment in social networking site Facebook valued it at $50bn - more than eBay and Time Warner. Computer Weekly talks to Facebook's Tim Campos
Infosecurity.Com - Within six years, Facebook has attracted 500 million members and was hailed the fastest growing company in the world.Facebook now wants to share the innovations in one of its datacentres with the rest of the industry through its Open Compute Project. The project aims to showcase how Facebook scales its computing infrastructure in the most efficient and economical way possible.
Strong IT focus
As you would expect, at Facebook there is a strong focus on IT. It could be argued that CIO Tim Campos embodies the new approach to CIO-level management, having moved from techie through an MBA degree to drive IT innovation in one of the world's hottest IT businesses.
"The role of IT and how you do your job is usually operational and about efficiency and cost saving. Facebook is quite frugal, but there is so much more emphasis on innovation. It is not just about the squeeze", says Campos in an interview with Computer Weekly.
"The company became an enterprise in the cloud computing age so the architecture is different [from a traditional IT department]." Read More
