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Most companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers, Google essentially reinvented large scale data center management. Most of
by cromwellian 13y ago
Most companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers, Google essentially reinvented large scale data center management. Most of the online services that most people on the planet earth now consume in some part or leverage the knowledge that was published in the papers listed above.
You can look at data centers before and after Google the same way people look at smartphones before and after the iPhone.
And Android didn't change things? Practically every new non-Apple consumer electronics device that has any kind of UI uses the AOSP.
- Aloisius 13y agoMost companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers Most companies don't run data centers. Of the ones that does, the vast majority don't look a thing like Google because very, very few companies have computing requirements that look anything like Google's And Android didn't change things? Changing the marketplace doesn't mean innovating. You can be very successful (as Google is) without leaving so much as a footnote in history of invention.
- nl 13y agoMost companies don't run data centers. Most companies don't build transistors. Just sayn'
- acdha 13y ago> Most companies running data centers are now copying the way Google runs data centers Most large tech companies perhaps but once you get out of a few major players this sadly isn't yet the case. > Google essentially reinvented large scale data center management. Almost everything Google has done are evolutionary refinements to long-running practice in HPC data centers which had long been doing automated provisioning and management, custom power & heat management, etc. for the same reasons: they couldn't afford not to.
- dalke 13y agoCould you disambiguate something for me? I was under the impression that more people ran things the Amazon way than the Google way. That is, I see various places which have OpenStack and Amazon EC2/S3 portability, and I assumed they looked more towards Amazon for how to run this sort of thing than Google. (Eg, to my limited understanding, the Amazon details is more well published.) While there's some mix and match, and Google and Amazon no doubt learn a bit from each other, how do you conclude that Google is the main reference? For example, if I search for "how to run a data center" I find http://www.forrester.com/Five+Data+Center+And+IT+Infrastructure+Lessons+From+The+Cloud+Giants/fulltext/-/E-RES101601 http://www.forrester.com/Five+Data+Center+And+IT+Infrastruct... , which talks about "Amazon. Salesforce.com. Microsoft. Rackspace" in the abstract, and does not mention Google.