How Web Giants Store Big Data

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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.