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Google and the new punk era of IT | The Register
By Martin English | July 26, 2006
Google and the new punk era of IT | The Register
Servers are the means, not the end, and after all, nearly 100 per cent of server components and sub-assemblies are themselves, snap together commodity parts whose price drop continually. Google goes further by building server failure tolerance into its software, so when one server dies, another takes on the workload. Hmm, this sounds like “high availability” computing – something that drives big server premium pricing in big “always-on” corporate IT shops.
from a recent Computerworldarticle
Instead of buying commercial servers, at a price that increases with reliability, Google builds less reliable servers at a cheaper cost knowing that its software will work around any outages.
An interesting take, for any IT service provider, on where the costs are.
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