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Google kills off Wave, Gears and Knol in project cull

The third wave of service closures puts an end to the once-hot Wave collaboration tools, the Gears offline web apps plug-in and the Knol knowledge-sharing platform, among other failed products Read more

23 November, 2011 by David Meyer
Google: 'At scale, everything breaks'

Google: 'At scale, everything breaks'

Distinguished Google Fellow Urs Hölzle discusses the challenges of scaling Google's infrastructure, coping with cascading failures and the rise of flash storage in the modern datacentre Read more

22 June, 2011 by Jack Clark
VMware: Security is the biggest challenge

VMware: Security is the biggest challenge

Virtualisation puts an enterprise's eggs into one basket - so it had better be a really good basket, argues VMware CTO Stephen Herrod, as he discusses the impact of mobility on virtualisation Read more

17 September, 2011 by Jack Clark

Google's land grab hints at datacentre expansion

...will become three or four," Google's senior vice president of operations, Urs Holzle, told ZDNet UK. Overall second-quarter capital expenditure was marginally up... Read more

15 July, 2011

Google eyes additional European datacentres

...to scale up its services, Google's senior vice president of operations Urs Holzle told ZDNet UK on Tuesday. "Right now we've got two... Read more

24 May, 2011

Google suspends Wave development

...the user adoption we would have liked", and is being retired, wrote Urs Holzle, senior vice president of operations and a Google Fellow, writing on... Read more

5 August, 2010 by Jack Clark

The magic that makes Google tick

Google's vice-president of engineering was in London this week to talk to potential recruits about just what lies behind that search page. ZDNet UK snuck in to listen Read more

1 December, 2004 by Matt Loney

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