See also: <a href="http://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-connects-online-empire/" rel="nofollow">http://www.wired.com/2015/06/google-reveals-secret-gear-conn...</a> (again, not much info, but puts it in context for a less technical audience...)
I'm excited to see this type of information from Google but this post seems more like an announcemant that they released information and less like actual information.
I think that Google is starting a marketing blitz to compete with Amazon and Microsoft for cloud services.<p>Inside Google, their technology is awesome but I think they need to get very solid in customer support to compete. You can quickly get tech help on the phone from Microsoft and Amazon, and Google needs to match that. That said, I have never signed up for their premium support so I might not be totally fair in this criticism.
These kinds of herculean efforts do make sense at Google's scale (at least from my reading of their papers & blog posts), but are there advantages for data centers operating at smaller scales to adopt some of the approaches used here e.g. custom-built commodity hardware-based network switches, SDN-based central controllers etc.?<p>EDIT: Maybe a better question is, at what point do you think about eschewing the traditional Cisco/Juniper gear and look towards these techniques?
If any other company than Google posted a fluff piece like this, it would never see the front page! Are we really excited by an announcement about a future publication sprinkled with allusions to how much better they are than everyone?