The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big BIG data

The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data
The impact of these distributed file systems extends far beyond the walls of the hyper-scale data centers they were built for— they have a direct impact on how those who use public cloud services such as Amazon’s EC2, Google’s AppEngine, and Microsoft’s Azure develop and deploy applications. And companies, universities, and government agencies looking for a way to rapidly store and provide access to huge volumes of data are increasingly turning to a whole new class of data storage systems inspired by the systems built by cloud giants. So it’s worth understanding the history of their development, and the engineering compromises that were made in the process.

January 27, 2012 by Uncategorized 0

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