Text 8316, 79 rader
Skriven 2005-11-21 17:26:38 av Mike '/m' (1:379/45)
   Kommentar till text 8312 av Randy H (1:379/45)
Ärende: Re: This is beginning to look interesting...
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From: Mike '/m' <mike@barkto.com>


MSFT has plenty of cash on hand, even with buying back their stock.
Unfortunately, Microsoft is too concerned with monopoly maintenance, they don't
see themselves being left in the dust by google.

 /m



On Mon, 21 Nov 2005 12:20:47 -0600, "Randy H"
<randy_holcomb@attglobal.net> wrote:

>This could be one possible explanation as to why Google is such a magnet
>right now for all those heavy CompSci and OS folk...
>
>And with MSFT using their cash to buy back their stock, that's money they
>won't have to use to counter this.
>
>"Mike '/m'" <mike@barkto.com> wrote in message
>news:dbl1o1hg0qaeogf8p3e3hbk9uadhp6c762@4ax.com...
>> ... even moreso if it is even remotely correct.
>>
>> http://www.pbs.org/cringely/pulpit/pulpit20051117.html
>>
>> ===
>> ... So why buy-up all that fiber, then?
>>
>> The probable answer lies in one of Google's underground parking garages
>> in Mountain View. There, in a secret area off-limits even to regular
>> GoogleFolk, is a shipping container. But it isn't just any shipping
>> container. This shipping container is a prototype data center. Google
>> hired a pair of very bright industrial designers to figure out how to
>> cram the greatest number of CPUs, the most storage, memory and power
>> support into a 20- or 40-foot box. We're talking about 5000 Opteron
>> processors and 3.5 petabytes of disk storage that can be dropped-off
>> overnight by a tractor-trailer rig. The idea is to plant one of these
>> puppies anywhere Google owns access to fiber, basically turning the
>> entire Internet into a giant processing and storage grid.
>>
>> While Google could put these containers anywhere, it makes the most
>> sense to place them at Internet peering points, of which there are about
>> 300 worldwide.
>>
>> Two years ago Google had one data center. Today they are reported to
>> have 64. Two years from now, they will have 300-plus. The advantage to
>> having so many data centers goes beyond simple redundancy and fault
>> tolerance. They get Google closer to users, reducing latency. They offer
>> inter-datacenter communication and load-balancing using that
>> no-longer-dark fiber Google owns. But most especially, they offer
>> super-high bandwidth connections at all peering ISPs at little or no
>> incremental cost to Google.
>>
>> Where some other outfit might put a router, Google is putting an entire
>> data center, and the results are profound. Take Internet TV as an
>> example. Replicating that Victoria's Secret lingerie show that took down
>> Broadcast.com years ago would be a non-event for Google. The video feed
>> would be multicast over the private fiber network to 300+ data centers,
>> where it would be injected at gigabit speeds into each peering ISP.
>> Viewers watching later would be reading from a locally cached copy.
>> Yeah, but would it be Windows Media, Real, or QuickTime? It doesn't
>> matter. To Google's local data center, bits are bits and the system is
>> immune to protocols or codecs. For the first time, Internet TV will
>> scale to the same level as broadcast and cable TV, yet still offer
>> soemthing different for every viewer if they want it.
>>
>> As for the coming AJAX Office and other productivity apps, they'll sit
>> locally, too. Two or three hops away from every user, they'll also be
>> completely backed-up by two to three data centers down the line. Your
>> data never goes away unless you erase it. Your latency and system
>> response are as low as they can possibly be made for a network app....
>> ===
>>
>> /m
>

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