Comments on: Google & Microsoft Working Towards the Perfect Datacenter http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/01/23/google-microsoft-working-towards-the-perfect-datacenter/ The random things that spew forth from my brain... Mon, 06 Sep 2010 01:58:58 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1-alpha By: Paul http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/01/23/google-microsoft-working-towards-the-perfect-datacenter/comment-page-1/#comment-5305 Paul Tue, 30 Jan 2007 15:44:26 +0000 http://blog.apokalyptik.com/2007/01/23/google-microsoft-working-towards-the-perfect-datacenter/#comment-5305 Right on. To add to that, the advances in datacenter hardware has really helped open some doors. In the old days, building a datacenter was cost prohibitive. Nowadays, more companies can get in the monster data center game. One thing that is amazing is what Archive.org does with their datacenter. They are little guys with a small budget, yet they've been able to put together an extraordinary datacenter using a lot of open source apps and lower-end hardware. But Archive.org doesn't have the performance requirements that an Amazon or a Google has. For a high performance data center that always performs fast, designers have to worry about all kinds of things like servers, routers, cooling, racks, connecting hardware, etc. Skimp on any of those the datacenter will have problems. Right on. To add to that, the advances in datacenter hardware has really helped open some doors. In the old days, building a datacenter was cost prohibitive. Nowadays, more companies can get in the monster data center game.

One thing that is amazing is what Archive.org does with their datacenter. They are little guys with a small budget, yet they’ve been able to put together an extraordinary datacenter using a lot of open source apps and lower-end hardware.

But Archive.org doesn’t have the performance requirements that an Amazon or a Google has. For a high performance data center that always performs fast, designers have to worry about all kinds of things like servers, routers, cooling, racks, connecting hardware, etc. Skimp on any of those the datacenter will have problems.

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