On Sun, 26 Aug 2012 13:06:13 +0200, Arthur Fichtl wrote: > >OTOH, if you look at the global big new companies (e.g. Google, Amazon, >Facebook), nobody of them is running MF systems because these companies >are not captivated by legacy systems. > >Instead, Google (as known to the public) is running a cluster version of >Linux based on commodity machines, Amazon is a pioneer in cloud >computing (see: > http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/08/15/amazon-direct-connect-comes-to-new-york/ > ) > Which mostly shows a photograph of an empty computer room. They could put anything in there.
>, and Facebookâs architecture is described here: > http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/06/27/facebook-server-storage-designs/ > What's impressive here is that they don't buy off-the-shelf hardware systems; they design their own. -- gil ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
