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 ...

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.

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 ...