Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review[/fancy_header3]

Google Data Center Pictures: Year in Review :In 2012 Google opened the doors up to some of it’s data centers in the typical colorful fashion we expect from Google. Hyper-scale content and cloud providers are ultra secretive about their trade secrets. Facebook’s Opencompute project is probably the most notable transparent architectures with regard to how they build their compute and storage nodes.

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]There is scale and Google scale[/fancy_header3]

[pullquote2 align=”right” variation=”orange” cite=”Urs Hoezle Google Senior VP”]“You benefit from the efficiency of Google data centers and our decade of running them”…”We’ve worked very hard to get the cost of computing down for a decade, and we’re passing the savings on to you.”[/pullquote2]The sheer scale of nearly 1 million servers distributed globally is pretty awe inspiring. It helps to remember that any good architecture scales if done in a modular fashion. The distributed systems at Google are one of, if not the best in the business. When people leave Google, a year or two later the reverse-engineered product emerges. Google has been one of the handful of consumers that through purchasing volume and R&D have turned the industry into a consumer driven market rather than the past two decades of manufacturers dictating the architectures and products.

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Why is Google Opening the Data Center Doors?[/fancy_header3]

The likely reason for 2012 being the Google data center PR blitz is to make personal connections with potential Google Compute Engine (GCE). GCE is Google’s cloud platform that is striving to be the one to start chipping at Amazon’s coveted AWS market share. The cloud computing market share is ripe disruption with AWS operating with next to no competition since its entrance into the public cloud. Amazon’s agility to reduce CapEx and squeeze efficiencies will be important in remaining the incumbent.

The final lesson from Google is, put loud colors on everything in your data center to make it look technically advanced. It even works with dirty old backup tapes.

[fancy_header3 variation=”slategrey”]Some Google Data Center Pictures From 2012[/fancy_header3]

[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center” title=”Google Data Center” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter2.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center At Night” title=”Google Data Center At Night” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-at-night.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Tape Robot” title=”Google Data Tape Robot” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-tape-robot.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Destroy Hard Drives” title=”Google Data Center Destroy Hard Drives” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-hard-drives.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Still Uses Tape Backup” title=”Google Still Uses Tape Backup” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-Tape.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”If Only All Servers Came With Cool Lights” title=”If Only All Servers Came With Cool Lights” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-racks2.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Centers Have Plenty of Cable Tray Space” title=”Google Data Centers Have Plenty of Cable Tray Space” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-DC.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Hot Air Aisle Behind Servers” title=”Google Data Center Hot Air Aisle Behind Servers” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000446.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Cable Management” title=”Google Data Center Cable Management” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000508.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Centers World Wide” title=”Google Data Centers World Wide” height=”250″ width=”553″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-worldwide.png[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Racks” title=”Google Data Center Racks” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-dc3.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Water Pipes” title=”Google Data Center Water Pipes” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000353.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: Helsinki” title=”Google Data Center: Helsinki” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter-places-121.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: Night Time” title=”Google Data Center: Night Time” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter-places-10.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: Chillers” title=”Google Data Center: Chillers” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter-places-04.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: LEDs Make Everything Look Cooler” title=”Google Data Center: LEDs Make Everything Look Cooler” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter-tech-15.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: Colors Have Purpose Also” title=”Google Data Center: Colors Have Purpose Also” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-data-center-colored-pipes.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: More Pipe Farms” title=”Google Data Center: More Pretty Pipe Farms” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/google-datacenter-tech-14.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Cooling Strategy” title=”Google Data Center Cooling Strategy” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000477.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Server Cabling” title=”Google Data Center Server Cabling” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Googles-server-room.png[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center More Backup Tape” title=”Google Data Center More Backup Tape” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000539.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Break Room” title=”Google Data Center Break Room” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-Pool-Table.png[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Easter Egg” title=”Google Data Center Easter Egg” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/g-ee.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center Storm Trooper Security” title=”Google Data Center Storm Trooper Security” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-Datacenter-Stormtrooper.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Droid Waving Bye” title=”Google Droid Waving Bye” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Google-Droid.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: Not Bad Views Either” title=”Google Data Center: Not Bad Views Either” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/ATT000291.jpg[/image_frame]

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[image_frame style=”framed_shadow” align=”center” alt=”Google Data Center: People” title=”Google Data Center: People” height=”500″ width=”610″]http://networkstatic.net/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/colage.jpg[/image_frame]

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Thanks for stopping by and I will see you in 2013, Have a great holidays!

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