Management MonogatariTales of Resource Management from Mark A. CarlsonJust Throw Storage At The Problem- July 12, 2006 Most people are very surprised when they learn how cheap Google's infrastructure costs are (a 2003 paper estimated a 3-1 advantage over their competitors). They do this by building a system out of uniform, general purpose boxes that are simple and inexpensive to acquire. Where they really save money, however, is in the administration of those systems. Their hard drives fail just like everybody else, their boxes die just as often, but they don't have to run around getting them back up, replacing.http://blogs.sun.com/mac/entry/just_throw_storage_at_the |