Says Martin Reynolds, VP at Gartner:
“Google is building out IT infrastructure at a rate that is simply unbelievable. Last year Google spent $2 billion on IT infrastructure and plans to spend $3 billion this year… compared with about $600 million by rivals Yahoo! and Microsoft. This gives Google a foundation for competitive advantage like you wouldn’t believe.”
Impressive numbers (and corresponding infrastructure) those are…
Google is Brain pictured above (I loved those cartoons); “What are we doing tonight, Brain, I mean, Google? Well Pinky, same as we do every night, Try and Take Over the CONNECTED World!
(source CIO Insight Magazine)
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Pinky and the brain rules! My cat has a stare that always reminds me of the brain in planning mode.
If yahoo’s involvement with hadoop pays off then soon the technology behind google’s awesome scalabilty/availability using off the shelf computing machines could be commoditized. That should and for competition’s sake might put google in check??