[irq]: serially techie08/04/2009
the googling of infrastructure again
In my last note on the googling of infrastructure, I said:
What if Google got into the infrastructure business, generalized their custom-for-google-applications hardware/software stack, and broke it up into half- or third-rack bundles that you could keep adding (rack after rack, row after row)?I just read an article on cnet about google’s infrastructure that, in a way, starts us down that road - Google uncloaks once-secret server. Here’s a quote:
Google has patents on the built-in battery design, “but I think we’d be willing to license them to vendors,” Hoelzle said. [Emphasis added.]And then there’re UCS and CloudRack C2. This is the road we’re going down. As James Urquhart says:
What is happening in data center infrastructure is a complete rethinking of the architectures utilized to deliver online services, from the overall data center architectures all the way down to the very components that serve the “big four” elements of the data center: facilities, servers, storage and networking.
