Fwd: Re: more on on Google? Vital statistics

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

NOT FOR ATTRIBUTION:

I know for a FACT they passed 100,000 last November. One thing the Louis
calculation may have missed is Google's obsession with low cost. For example
read the company's technical white paper on the Google file system. It was
designed so that Google could purchase the cheapest disks possible,
expecting them to have a high failure rate. What happens when you factor
cost obsession into his equation?

> From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
> Reply-To: dave () farber net
> Date: Sun, 02 May 2004 10:52:24 -0400
> To: ip () v2 listbox com
 ...snip...
> on quick back of the envelope calculations, it looks like Google is
> managing between 45,000 and 80,000 servers. Here's how I arrived at
> this conclusion: 

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