The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data

arstechnica.com — Data needs at Amazon, Microsoft, and Google have driven the development of distributed file systems such as GFS and Dynamo. The decisions and trade-offs of each can explain a lot about why cloud services work the way they do—and why they sometimes don't behave well at all. Jan 27, 2012 View in Crawl 4

The Great Disk Drive in the Sky: How Web giants store big—and we mean big—data