Strategy: buy lots of commodity hardware, because problems tend to be too big for their problem space. Hardware reliability is not that useful as well because it’s expensive.
[Showing the same pictures over and over again, someone from Google PR, please authorize the release of newer pictures]
[A GFS description follows, nothing new so far, read the papers on the topic]
[A BigTable description follows, same deal]
I wish this talk had some new information…