GeneralFacebook Opens New Storage Service to Testing

The social networking site's Data Store API beta program may indicated plans to offer a data storage service to developers.

Recommend this story? Yes No Please Wait... Facebook has quietly launched an open Data Store API beta program that may indicate plans to offer a data storage service to developers.Since Sunday, the Facebook Developer wiki has included a page offering users beta access to a data storage service. However, the wiki does warn users that the page is still in development and that users should make sure that data used in testing the service is properly backed up.Facebook officials could not be reached for comment.The wiki does not elaborate upon how much storage is available to developers as part of the open beta. Further, there is no information provided about pricing or how much capacity the eventual storage... [ Read more on www.pcworld.com ]

GeneralSocial network users hide identities

Almost a third of social networking site users have entered false information to help protect their identities, which somewhat defeats the object of using them.

GeneralBlueArc teams with Texas on storage networks

BlueArc Corporation, a network storage manufacturer, and Texas Memory Systems have jointly tested and certified product interoperability of BlueArc's Titan 2000 unified storage system family and Texas Memory Systems' RamSan-400.