Yesterday Google formally announced Google Storage to a few (5000?) of us at Google I/O. Here is the gist of this as I see it from the various discussions/talks I attended. To begin with, I have to point out that there is almost nothing new in what Google has proposed to provide. Amazon has been [...]

MapReduce, Bigtable and Pregel have their origins in Google and they all deal with “large systems”. But all of them may be dwarfed in size and complexity by a new project Google is working on, which was mentioned briefly (may be un-intentionally) at an event last year. Instead of caching data closer to user, it [...]

Unless you are running a fly by night shop, DR (Disaster recovery) should be one of the top issues for your operations team. In a “Scalable architecture” world, the complexity of DR can become a disaster in itself.  Yesterday Google Announced that it now finally has DR plan for Google Apps. While this is nice, [...]