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Thursday, June 29, 2006 |
The Google File System is a very interesting example of rethinking something from the ground up. Google doesn't use most of the technologies - e.g. RAID arrays and mirrored drives - that are taken as givens for enterprise-class network storage, yet their gigantic, globally-distributed app performs amazingly well. Here's Google's white paper, and Wikipedia has this article...
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