SecurityRatty: Google Moves to 3rd Party Processing

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Google Moves to 3rd Party Processing - The eCrime equivalent

2008-09-24 00:00:00 by Uri Rivner in Speaking of Security, the RSA Blog and Podcast

The numbers behind Google's processing are staggering. Indexing over one trillion URLs, the Internet search giant reported in January that it processes 20 Petabytes of data per day.

Turns out a Petabyte is 1000 Terbytes. So Google processes over 20,000 Terabytes of data per day. Supporting all of this impossibly massive data crunching is a huge network of proprietary servers and custom made storage. It's the mythical Google grid.

Google conceals the exact nature of the grid; it's one of their trade secrets.

So, what if I told you Google is abandoning its mythical, proprietary, custom-made processing and storage grid, and is moving to an off-the-shelf third party processing platform?

Any boffin would have choked on this scoop.

OK, relax. Google isn't ditching its proprietary grid. But its eCrime equivalent is certainly doing exactly that.