There's no construction activity at the delayed Google data center site in Pryor, Oklahoma, the most visible sign of the company's decision to scale back its capital spending on infrastructure.
Today's Gmail outage resulted from underestimating the load that routine maintenance on "a small fraction" of Gmail servers would place on the routers supporting the application, Google said.
In this video from the Google i/o Developer Conference in May, Google's Ryan Barrett discusses "multihoming" across multiple data center locations with large scale storage systems.
Officials in western North Carolina believe Millar believes the presence of huge data centers for Google (GOOG) and Apple (AAPL) will establish the region as a major data center destination.
Google's quarterly energy-weighted average (Power Usage Effectivness) PUE for its data centers rose to 1.20 in the second quarter, up from 1.19 in the the first quarter of 2009.
Google's quarterly energy-weighted average (Power Usage Effectivness) PUE for its data centers rose to 1.20 in the second quarter, up from 1.19 in the the first quarter of 2009.
Google (GOOG) spent just $139 million on its data centers in the second quarter of 2009, as it further squeezed capital spending that was already at historic lows.
Google has begun operating data center in Belgium that has no chillers to support its cooling systems, which will improve energy efficiency but make local weather forecasting a factor in its network management.