Google opens Web Window on their Data Centers

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http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/

"Where the Internet lives - Take a look inside Google's high-tech data
centers"

showed up as an article in the local _Philadelphia_Inquirer_ newspaper this
morning.

http://www.philly.com/philly/business/174685071.html

Because of prior Data Center and Google discussions on NANOG, am hoping this
is interesting to others.

Tony Patti
CIO
S. Walter Packaging

2

I saw that yesterday. I also enjoyed looking at the inside of their datacenter on Google Street view.

https://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&ll=35.898532,-81.545817&spn=0.004806,0.010568&sll=35.900197,-81.547024&layer=c&cid=7373938251588581469&panoid=2A5KnxdctVfIXT0qFF5Z6Q&cbp=13,356.72,,0,2.73&gl=US&t=m&cbll=35.898546,-81.547919&z=17

Derek

3

Also worth seeing is this article which explains how their hot aisles work:
http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2012/10/17/how-google-cools-its-armada-of-servers/
And this longer and fluffier piece in Wired:
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/10/ff-inside-google-data-center/all/

Tony.

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http://www.google.com/about/datacenters/gallery/#/tech/12

This picture has obviously been photoshopped. If you look closely,
this is a mirrored picture: left and right sides are strictly the
same.

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It looks right the right-hand side is real and the left is just a
mirror on most of the pictures.
You can see from the LED's, empty slots in the racks, hanging cables and labels.

Here is a collect of photos you from the Reddit thread on it:

http://imgur.com/a/UBxVc

Also they did not show any of their custom networking equipment.

http://www.networking-forum.com/viewtopic.php?f=46&t=29803

The whole event was all just Smoke and Mirrors.....

www.youtube.co.jp/watch?v=kU4RHfjeE8w

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One of those photos looks like it came directly from the Hive in Resident Evil.

Now we know...

Tim