Tag Archives: google

Mai200902

geewiz

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A look into a Google datacenter

Following up to the recent entry about Google’s custom server chassis, in this video we get a glimpse into one of Google’s datacenters where those servers are in operation.

Again, Google does it their own way by using separate containers with the necessary infrastructure built in instead of having different rooms for all the racks. The data center building itself delivers power and cooling. I guess it’s because of the more modular structure that allows replacement of a complete server “room” why Google chose that approach.

Apr200929

geewiz

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Google’s homebrew server chassis

At this year’s Efficient Data Center Summit, held April 1st 2009 at Google’s Mountain View, CA campus, Ben Jai, Google Server Platform Architect, displayed one of the servers they deploy in all of their global datacenters:

While there probably are many other well-known ISPs that use custom-built servers, I find it interesting that Google goes as far as to add a 12V battery to every server to replace the traditional large UPS systems normally used in datacenters.