SEP 19, 2012 - Google Spans Entire Planet With GPS-Powered Database
Three years ago, a top Google engineer named Vijay Gill was asked what he would do if someone gave him a magic wand. Gill hesitated before answering. And when he did answer, he was coy. But he seemed to say that he would build a single system that could automatically and instantly juggle information across all of Google's data centers -- and he seemed to say that Google had already built one.