What the industry can learn from Facebook's successes and stumbles

Familiar Achilles' heel
Despite it's reputation for innovation, Facebook is still susceptible to the challenges that impact massive data centers across the industry. Motley Fool notes that the social network has suffered two embarrassing network failures this summer. Though the two network crashes lasted a total of 19 minutes, both apparently affected each of Facebook's 1.32 billion users. This level of error is shocking from Facebook, especially considering the company has successfully limited problems on the user end in previous instances of network trouble.

The incidents remind data center managers that they can never be too careful when securing their own networks. Many companies have utilized hybrid storage solutions to provide more dynamic access to their data and eliminate the risks incurred when network infrastructure includes a single point of failure. Thankfully, the popularity of fiber-to-Ethernet has made it easy for facilities to pursue direct links to private cloud servers.

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