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How Web Giants Store Big Data
By Jean-Jacques Maleval, Thu, February 2nd, 2012
Excellent article on Google, Hadoop, Amazon and Microsoft file systems
The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big - and we mean big- data
By Sean Gallagher
The need for this kind of perpetually scalable, durable storage has driven the giants of the Web - Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, and others - to adopt a different sort of storage solution: distributed file systems based on object-based storage. These systems were at least in part inspired by other distributed and clustered filesystems such as Red Hat's Global File System and IBM's General Parallel Filesystem.
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