Bent Rayner
There's two seperate issues here: First Google doesn't do developer or consumer support. They don't care and whenever they've tried it's been a complete disaster. Second, things that don't directly benefit social are…
Tape is still cheaper per Gb. Google uses StorageTek SL8500 and Spectralogic T-Finity libraries to manage it's backups and cost is significantly smaller then trying to do that with spindles.
Google never published any information about it's internal server designs because they suffer from NIH and many times come up with really crappy hardware. Nobody stole anything from Google. FB's design's are different…
There's two seperate issues here: First Google doesn't do developer or consumer support. They don't care and whenever they've tried it's been a complete disaster. Second, things that don't directly benefit social are…
Tape is still cheaper per Gb. Google uses StorageTek SL8500 and Spectralogic T-Finity libraries to manage it's backups and cost is significantly smaller then trying to do that with spindles.
Google never published any information about it's internal server designs because they suffer from NIH and many times come up with really crappy hardware. Nobody stole anything from Google. FB's design's are different…