1. Not just networking: How Facebook plans to deconstruct the data center.

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    Not just networking: How Facebook plans to deconstruct the data center.

    Facebook is rethinking how it does networking, as Wired reports, but it's actually rethinking the entire composition of the data center. Its plans will destroy the servers, switches and storage boxes vendors sell today in an effort to operate efficiently at web scale.

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