Going With The Flow: Google’s Secret Switch To The Next Wave Of Networking * By Steven Levy <http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/author/steven-levy/> * April 17, 2012 | * 11:45 am In early 1999, an associate computer science professor at UC Santa Barbara climbed the steps to the second floor headquarters of a small startup in Palo Alto, and wound up surprising himself by accepting a job offer. Even so, Urs Hölzle <http://research.google.com/pubs/author79.html> hedged his bet by not resigning from his university post, but taking a year-long leave. He would never return. Hölzle became a fixture in the company — called Google. As its czar of infrastructure, Hölzle oversaw the growth of its network operations from a few cages in a San Jose co-location center to a massive internet power; a 2010 study by Arbor Networks concluded that if Google was an ISP it would be the second largest in the world (the largest is Tier 3 <http://www.level3.com/en/about-us/company-information/company-history/>, which services over 2,700 major corporations in 450 markets over 100,000 fiber miles.) [...] Continua qui: http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2012/04/going-with-the-flow-google/