Google: Big Rice Machine
June 27, 2008
To say that Google is really big is like saying New York City is a little seaside village. It’s a complete oversimplification. Posted in a blog at Managed Networks, the following analogy helped me get a better handle on a number too large to comprehend. Think of a single piece of data as a grain of rice. Google cooks 20 Petabytes of rice a day. That’s enough rice for every person on the planet to have 1,600 bowls each of the white stuff for dinner. Now that’s a San Francisco treat. You can read the original rice analysis here.
Jess Bratcher, June 26, 2008
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