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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. bullshit by Gravis+Zero · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "we could not buy, for any price, a data-center network that would meet the requirements of our distributed systems,"

    bullshit. if you told a company that specialized in making toothpicks that you would give them a trillion dollars to build a datacenter with XYZ, they would make it happen. did you offer someone a trillion dollars?

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