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Google data centers – how do they do it?
Woke up this morning thinking about the magnitude of the Google backbone and asked myself how do they do that? What public information is out there describing their data center. So to answer that I...
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Google data centers – how many servers do they have?
Following the previous post, I am trying to figure out the number of Google Servers out there. Apparently it is not a simple question to answer. Google is kind of secret about this information,...
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SalesForce.com – 3 data centers and about 1,000 servers
Previous two posts were talking about Google back-end data centers and the number of servers they are running. In this post I will try to explore a totally different approach to data centers applied by...
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Dreamforce ’10 update: Salesforce.com is running (just) 1,500 servers
Reviewing the keynotes, comments and blogs from Dreamforce ’10, Salesforce.com annual event. “It is the best one, yet” as the slogan echoed all over the Moscone. In the first day keynote Marc Benioff...
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How is Amazon few weeks after…
We are few weeks after the big Amazon outage. As is appropriate but not as many companies do, Amazon provided detailed explanation of the chain of events that caused the service disruption for more...
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It’s cool to cool a data-center
High-end massive data centers of giant service-providers have become an arena of innovations and optimization techniques beyond my wildest dreams from just few years ago. Google, Amazon, Apple,...
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Netflix has a monkey, well, an army of monkeys
Netflix has a monkey, well, an army of monkeys. What am I talking about? Let me explain: I really liked reading the Netflix techblog on a subject that is most dear to my heart – testing your data...
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The Cold Data-Center Movement
Modern high-scale data-centers are just work of art. The open-compute project started by Facebook and others, provides some insights on how much innovation is needed to support the data-centers behind...
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Google agrees to buy additional wind farm in Texas
Google agrees to buy additional wind farm in Texas “Another windy day in Texas: a new power purchase agreement” a recent Google blog entry announcing additional renewal energy purchase for the tech...
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