One of the things they mentioned in the article was that Google is now also a pretty major computer hardware manufacturer....just for stuff that they build for their own datacenters! I do wonder if someday Google will start selling their hardware...
Well, they have others build it for them but I don't think they have their own factory for their server related hardware either.This is true! But I did mean, though obviously didn't say, server hardware. With their purchase of Motorola, they're now even manufacturing some of those things in-house (though obviously it will be quite a while before any new products designed under Google's ownership will be put out...and these aren't Nexus products...).With their nexus line of products they already sell their own hardware
I imagine so. But I strongly suspect that most any company that wants to manage large server farms would want to use very similar technology. That said, perhaps some of their hardware infrastructure is particularly peculiar to their software infrastructure, Borg and MapReduce, so that it wouldn't be useful to firms that use other computing solutions.I suppose their server hardware is pretty specific, specially designed for what google needs most? I wonder how suited they would be for other customers tasks. I guess if you are running your own search engine it might be
Doesn't much surprise me. Makes it sound like there was probably something on the other side of the rack that they didn't want to be made public...
Possibly. Though my understanding is that all of the connections are on the front side, as this is a hot aisle where people generally don't go. I don't know what else might have made the one side look ugly, though. Perhaps it was as simple as a few missing servers because one of the rows hadn't been filled yet.Probably untidy-looking bundles of network cables coming out of the rear end of the opposite row of server racks...
