Facebook to use 'cold storage' to deal with vast amounts of data

Facebook is rethinking the way it stores data to cope with the 7 petabytes of new photos the social network's users upload every month. As the number of photos grows, Facebook needs find cheaper, less power-hungry ways to store them all, according to the company's vice-president of infrastructure engineering.

Source: http://www.infoworld.com/d/cloud-computing/facebook-use-cold-storage-deal-vast-amounts-of-data-205127

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