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07 Sep 13
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Google-Mart: Sam Walton Taught Google More About How to Dominate the Internet Than Microsoft Ever Did
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Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry
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Google's strengths are searching, development of Open Source Internet services, and running clusters of tens of thousands of servers
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Notice on this list there is nothing about operating systems
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a shipping container
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This shipping container is a prototype data center.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64
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Two years from now, they will have 300-plus
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The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency
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ut most especially, they offer super-high bandwidth connections at all peering ISPs at little or no incremental cost to Google.
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Take Internet TV as an example
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iewers watching later would be reading from a locally cached copy
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For the first time, Internet TV will scale to the same level as broadcast and cable TV, yet still offer soemthing different for every viewer if they want it.
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This is more than another Akamai or even an Akamai on steroids. This is a dynamically-driven, intelligent, thermonuclear Akamai with a dedicated back-channel and application-specific hardware.
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Have you seen Google's Search Appliance?
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hey ship you a 1U prebuilt server.
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You connect it to your network, fill out a simple configuration screen, and it scans and indexes your web site (or sites) for you.
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here are only so many fiber networks and they'll be BUYING service from those outfits -- many of which are in or near bankruptcy
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Say the containers cost $500,000 each in volume and $500,000 per year to run
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That's $300 million to essentially co-opt the Interne
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here will be startups and little guys, but no medium-sized companies
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ISPs, which we've thought of as a threatened species, won't be touched,
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but then their profit margins are so low they aren't worth touching.
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After all, Wal-Mart doesn't try to own the roads its goods are carried over. And the final result is that Web 2.0 IS Google.
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24 Mar 11
aminggsTwo years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, red
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16 Feb 10
Adriana LukasInteresting article about google and its plans for the internet from 2005
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There will be the Internet, and then there will be the Google Internet, superimposed on top. We'll use it without even knowing. The Google Internet will be faster, safer, and cheaper. With the advent of widespread GoogleBase (again a bit-schlepping app that can be used in a thousand ways -- most of them not even envisioned by Google) there's suddenly a new kind of marketplace for data with everything a transaction in the most literal sense as Google takes over the role of trusted third-party info-escrow agent for all world business. That's the goal.
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And unless Google comes up with an ecosystem to allow their survival, that means all the other web services companies will be marginalized. There will be startups and little guys, but no medium-sized companies. ISPs, which we've thought of as a threatened species, won't be touched, but then their profit margins are so low they aren't worth touching. After all, Wal-Mart doesn't try to own the roads its goods are carried over. And the final result is that Web 2.0 IS Google.
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17 Jan 08
Paul Terry Walhusin 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 cra
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14 Jan 08
Clement StaedtlerI think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won't steal it or strong-arm us. They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that's a bad thing.
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26 Dec 07
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21 Oct 07
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Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency.
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There will be the Internet, and then there will be the Google Internet, superimposed on top. We'll use it without even knowing. The Google Internet will be faster, safer, and cheaper. With the advent of widespread GoogleBase (again a bit-schlepping app that can be used in a thousand ways -- most of them not even envisioned by Google) there's suddenly a new kind of marketplace for data with everything a transaction in the most literal sense as Google takes over the role of trusted third-party info-escrow agent for all world business. That's the goal.
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Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry.
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Microsoft can't compete. Yahoo probably can't compete. Sun and IBM are like remora, along for the ride. And what does it all cost, maybe $1 billion? That's less than Microsoft spends on legal settlements each year.
Game over.
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Say the containers cost $500,000 each in volume and $500,000 per year to run. That's $300 million to essentially co-opt the Internet. And you know whose strategy this is? Wal-Mart's. And unless Google comes up with an ecosystem to allow their survival, that means all the other web services companies will be marginalized. There will be startups and little guys, but no medium-sized companies.
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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.
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13 Oct 07
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Play to your strengths. That's the key to success in any industry. This is the week I promised to explain where I think Google is headed, and playing to the company's strengths is key if they are going to do what I think, which is effectively take over the Internet. Oh they won't steal it or strong-arm us. They'll seduce us into giving it to them. And I am not at all sure that's a bad thing.
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12 Oct 07
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16 Dec 06
Colas NahabooGoogle. Microsoft can't compete. Yahoo probably can't compete. Sun and IBM are like remora, along for the ride. And what does it all cost, maybe $1 billion? That's less than Microsoft spends on legal settlements each year. Game over.
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18 Nov 06
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