Wedge, FBOSS Aimed At ‘Disaggregation’ Of Facebook’s Data Centers
Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh introduced two new data-center technologies, Wedge and FBOSS, in a post on the Facebook Engineering blog.
Facebook Vice President of Infrastructure Engineering Jay Parikh introduced two new data-center technologies, Wedge and FBOSS, in a post on the Facebook Engineering blog.
Wedge was described as a new top-of-rack network switch, embedded with a full microserver module, enabling it to look, feel, and operate more like a server and enabling information-technology personnel to better manage switches, servers, and storage.
And FBOSS is a Linux-based operating system that allows for optimal management of Wedge and easy deployment of software solutions to boost the performance of the network.
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