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Google's Secret Plans For All That Dark Fiber?
beat.net writes "Robert X. Cringely details the plan for all the dark fiber Google has been buying up: "The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid. While Google could put these containers anywhere, it makes the most sense to place them at Internet peering points, of which there are about 300 worldwide.""
The following will rant is going to get marked troll, because that's usually what the painful truth gets. And after all what I am about to say is Ad Hominem etc.
.. P2P backup, he thought that was some sort of new idea of his when there were companies pre-existing that were already doing/trying to do what he was saying. Furthermore his "predictions for the next year" that he does every year are so damn obvious .. anyone who reads any sort of tech news would be able to make them. Yet he thinks he's a genius for making predictions, half of which he read elsewhere.
I havent read the article. I can tell you in advance it's going to tell us what we already knew. The guy is a fool. I never read anything on his site that wasn't obvious that everyone knew. Yet he that he offers new insights or vision. A typical example
and I say that after having been in the US Army for three years AND in Vietnam.
Sure you were.