YouTube Video of one of Google's Data Centers

[webfreak08]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zRwPSFpLX8I&feature=player_embedded

Very cool. :agree:

 

[SenseiSteve]

Wow. That's massive!

 

[cyberworldhost]

That is one beautiful data center!!!
upto 45,000 servers is a lot

 

[HivelocityJJ]

Great video!

 

[siforek]

I love ther "Google provided, personal transportation device."

 

[romes]

That is a sick setup they have going there.

 

[Vengence]

awesome video thanks.

 

[SSANZ]

Im sure i can see gold bars in those containers

 

[Exa_Ankur]

I love ther "Google provided, personal transportation device."

Nice way to combine work and exercise

 

[ldcdc]

Nice way to combine work and exercise

Exercise? They would get a lot more of that if they would have to walk.

 

[Rob]

Lol love the google provided transportation device... Interesting servers they have their... presumably they are custom made cases?

 

[DatabaseDesign]

Wouldn't you achieve greater efficiency having one tightly controlled and monitored environment vs. 30 or 40?

 

[webfreak08]

Wouldn't you achieve greater efficiency having one tightly controlled and monitored environment vs. 30 or 40?

If you mean DC locations, perhaps, but by spreading out its servers all around the globe, Google greatly reduces, if not eliminates, the chance that a problem at any one (or two or three or ...) locations will bring the Google network down.

It's the old thing about not keeping all your eggs in one basket.

 

[DatabaseDesign]

Fully agree on the standpoint of global redundancy but I was referring to the compartmentalized design of within that datacenter. I would venture to guess that it is more cost effective and more efficient to control one large raised floor area vs. 30-40 shipping containers. I would love to see the cost benefit analysis for that design... like that's ever going to happen.

 

[HostLeet]

So, that's the kind of Datacenter you can build when you have billions of dollars for your budget. :king: NICE!

Who wants to take on the champ? :box:

 

[SenseiSteve]

Who wants to take on the champ? :box:

Apparently, Bing is making a run at it. If Bing falls short, it won't be because they ran short of cash.

 

[HostLeet]

Apparently, Bing is making a run at it. If Bing falls short, it won't be because they ran short of cash.

So I've heard. Is Bing part of MSN?

 

[DatabaseDesign]

I think Bing is to replace Live, correct me if I am wrong.

 

[SenseiSteve]

Microsoft - here's a relevant story Their search engine penetration has definitely increased.

 

[webfreak08]

Back on track, guys.

Fully agree on the standpoint of global redundancy but I was referring to the compartmentalized design of within that datacenter. I would venture to guess that it is more cost effective and more efficient to control one large raised floor area vs. 30-40 shipping containers. I would love to see the cost benefit analysis for that design... like that's ever going to happen.

Your cost benefit analysis (vague, but you'll get the idea):

The huge power draws have spurred innovation in the form factor of the data center itself. For its Chicago center, Microsoft is outfitting half the building with shipping containers packed with servers. “Imagine a data center that’s about 30 megawatts, with standard industry average density numbers you can probably fit 25,000 to 30,000 servers in a facility like that,” says Microsoft’s Chrapaty. “You can do 10 times that in a container-based facility, because the containers offer power density numbers that are very hard to realize in a standard rack-mount environment.”

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/magazine/14search-t.html?pagewanted=5&hp

So, it's for saving on power costs.