In the New Data Center, It’s Roofs Off and Taxes Down

Technology (Aug 17 2009) Construction , Power and Cooling

1. Google and Microsoft continue to spar over both their data center designs and how much information they reveal about the inner workings of their vast computing centers. In one corner, you have the do-it-yourself Google that builds its own servers and even switches. The homemade approach fits Google’s cultural belief that hand-crafting products to meet its unique needs makes more sense than buying general purpose computing systems. No one really knows how effective Google’s strategy is. The secretive company releases precious little information about its internal operations. Maybe it saves vast amounts of money by fine-tuning a super-efficient data center. Or maybe the “must-be-invented here” method adds a lot of cost and complexity to Google’s infrastructure. (Read Full Article)

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