GFS – the new pillars of the Earth
The modern information society in which we live today based – at least in large parts of the world’s population – millions of calculations performed by Google. You may apply even the thesis the entire effectiveness of today’s society is significantly dependent on Google’s effectiveness. As quick Google expects and answers queries faster processes in companies expire.
We are used to search queries will be answered in 0.2 seconds, our mail and calendars quickly and even new pages are indexed within a few minutes. In our free time look at hundreds of YouTube videos, or browse through Google News. Google’s large reliability can waste hardly a thought to a possible failure.
And as we move increasingly our worker processes on projects at Google. Many webmasters and businesses depend directly or indirectly the Google traffic. Today Google is involved in large parts of the value chain Internet. Google fails completely, is likely still is an important part of the value chain. Therefore feels so any consequences of such complete failure, no matter whether small user or large company.
To minimize the risk of failure, sets Google to redundancy and builds millions teure data center across about the world spread. A data center fails, another automatically operation. In addition it relies on cloud computing, which in addition to increase availability.
Coordinates all of the traffic is fully automatic on the JRC the Google file system. It was already developed by Larry page and Sergey Brin as a University project and continually refined. The JRC is the Google operating system. It provides space, computer capacity and requested data automatically lightning. Millions of computers are managed and networked with each other.
In my view, can be now seen as the most important software in the world the GFS, but essentially controls our access to information. But how secure is this type of artificial intelligence?
Is able to manipulate the JRC as hackers and set a chain reaction in motion, this could mean the collapse of the entire information structure. I want at this point the devil on the wall paint but this awareness, a complete failure is perhaps more likely than many think. And the consequences would be already fatal.
Therefore, I think it is useful to backup as much data as possible private and trust not 100 providential on the JRC. One is to use Google. The other Google to build.
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