The Brain Of The Beast: Google Reveals The Computers Behind The Cloud
The Brain Of The Beast: Google Reveals The Computers Behind The Cloud Enlarge this image toggle caption Connie Zhou/Google Connie Zhou/Google Behind the ephemeral "cloud" of cloud computing, the network we use for everything from checking our email to streamlining our health care system, there lies a very tangible and very big computer infrastructure. Sponsor Message Enlarge this image toggle caption Connie Zhou/Google Connie Zhou/Google It's the same facility the company revealed in an exclusive tour to Wired senior writer Steven Levy, whose story on Google's infrastructure appears in the magazine's November issue. But Google's data center technology is unique, Levy says, which is partly responsible for the company's success — and a cause for the secrecy surrounding it. Sponsor Message "One technique that Google really pioneered was keeping things hotter than has been traditionally expected in a data center," Levy says.
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