Data centres : Web scale data hubs

The huge global web scale companies have absolutely revolutionised the architecture of data centres in response to their own needs and growth, said Francis O’Haire, technology director of Data Solutions. “Google, Amazon, Microsoft, Facebook and others have been developing their own architectures, even custom-designing servers, for over a decade. They all their own data centres to serve millions of users and are quite simply the world leaders in this sector of ICT.”

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