Gartner-Quadrant für Datacenter-Outsourcing
As part of implementing the many products and services offered by Google, we have built a collection of systems and tools that simplify the storing and processing of large-scale data sets, and the construction of heavily-used public services based on these data sets. These systems are intended to work well in Google's computational environment, which consists of large numbers of commodity machines connected by commodity networking hardware. Our systems handle issues like storage reliability and availability in the face of machine failures, and our processing tools make it relatively easy to write robust computations that run reliably and efficiently on thousands of machines. In this talk I'll highlight some of the systems we have built, and discuss some challenges and future directions for new systems.
Cisco’s new data center strategy includes the addition of servers, their so-called Unified Computing System to their networking portfolio. However, the broader implication of Cisco’s view of the data center should not be overlooked.
Looks like a dutch datacenter providing virtual private servers (VPS) got owned. The community-driven Soleus Hosts has exported their iSCSI targets world-writeable, unless some bored dutch guy demonstrated the seriousness of this incident by replacing all the ssh-keys on the compromised boxes. (via bugblue)
