[dundee] Google's Secret Servers Revealed

[gordon dunlop]

2009/4/7 Robert Ladyman <it at file-away.co.uk>

> "I wouldn't like to be the maintenance man for looking after everything."
>
> Chuck Norris is their maintenance man...nothing to worry about.


  Microsoft don't employ maintenance men, soon as a few servers in a
container fail they wheech it out and bring in a new one. Do they get their
money back on the old ones or sell   them on Ebay?

  http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10020902-56.html

Gordon


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> On Monday 06 April 2009 22:51:16 gordon dunlop wrote:
> > Here is an article on how Google runs its servers. 1160 servers in a
> > standard shipping container each with a 12v battery backup in case of
> power
> > failure. The data centers  are just stacks of shipping containers built
> on
> > top of each other. They use Gigabyte motherboards with dual CPU's and it
> > looks like 8 banks of memory. I wouldn't like to be the maintenance man
> for
> > looking after everything.
> >
> > http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10209580-92.html
> >
> > Gordon
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