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Google Pulling Back the Veil On Its Custom-Built Data Centers

Posted by samzenpus on from the show-and-tell dept.

jfruh writes: In the mid-'00s, as Google scaled up its data centers to meet increasing demand, "we could not buy, for any price, a data-center network that would meet the requirements of our distributed systems," says Amin Vahdat, the company's networking technical lead. So they had to build their own software-defined networks inside what were essentially vast warehouse-sized computers. And now the company is starting to tell the world how they did it.

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  1. Re:And you all still don't need it by haruchai · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Are those fiber links really from 2 independent providers? Where my company most needs redundancy, the fiber is owned & maintaned by a single provider and every one is a reseller.

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  2. Libraries of Congress by darkain · · Score: 5, Interesting

    So, how many Libraries of Congress is that anyways? ... oh wait ... the Google blog post (ya'know, the actual artist, not the article talking about the article which was linked from the summary) actually states!

    "Our current generation — Jupiter fabrics — can deliver more than 1 Petabit/sec of total bisection bandwidth. To put this in perspective, such capacity would be enough for 100,000 servers to exchange information at 10Gb/s each, enough to read the entire scanned contents of the Library of Congress in less than 1/10th of a second." = Source: http://googlecloudplatform.blo...