> "anchored in the old paradigm of storage being a commodity that must be conserved" The author seems to think that Google's innovation was to simply ignore th

> "anchored in the old paradigm of storage being a commodity that must be conserved" The author seems to think that Google's innovation was to simply ignore the storage problem and then it went away. What they did was work immensely hard at the storage problem, until their innovations in data compression and retrieval made it possible to store larger amounts of data. http://highscalability.com/google-architecture http://highscalability.com/google-architecture