Tuesday, June 15, 2010

Google's Web Servers, Revealed

It's long been known that Google builds its own web servers, enabling it to design the servers for peak performance and energy efficiency. At today's Google Data Center Energy Summit, the company put one of its custom servers on display. Here's a brief video of the server, which features a power supply that integrates a battery, allowing it to function as an uninterruptible power supply (UPS).