A recent article in Network World written by Editor in Chief John Dix provides a lot of details about how LinkedIn builds and manages its datacenters.  One interesting finding in the article is that LinkedIn relies on 100,000+ high-density servers from Supermicro in its operations which replaced previously used Cisco UCS equipment.

An image below shows a datacenter row with racks filled with Supermicro multi-node servers.

 

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