Comments on: Google’s in California? http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/07/28/googles-in-california/ A member of the Gartner Blog Network Fri, 20 Jan 2012 15:39:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Whit Andrews http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/07/28/googles-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-155 Whit Andrews Wed, 29 Jul 2009 21:14:12 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/?p=59#comment-155 My son assumed I worked FOR Google. My son assumed I worked FOR Google.

]]> By: Mike West http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/2009/07/28/googles-in-california/comment-page-1/#comment-153 Mike West Tue, 28 Jul 2009 19:12:53 +0000 http://blogs.gartner.com/david_m_smith/?p=59#comment-153 Google is in the cloud and the cloud is everywhere...you were just at Google HQ, a common mistake that many people make. from the Google Data Center FAQ: Where are Google’s data centers located? Google has disclosed the sites of four new facilities announced in 2007, but many of its older data center locations remain under wraps. Much of Google’s data center equipment is housed in the company’s own facilities, but it also continues to lease space in a number of third-party facilities. Much of its third-party data center space is focused around peering centers in major connectivity hubs. Here’s our best information about where Google is operating data centers, building new ones, or maintaining equipment for network peering. Facilities we believe to be major data centers are bold-faced. UNITED STATES Mountain View, Calif. Pleasanton, Calif. San Jose, Calif. Los Angeles, Calif. Palo Alto, Calif. Seattle Portland, Oregon The Dalles, Oregon Chicago Atlanta, Ga. (two sites) Reston, Virginia Ashburn, Va. Virginia Beach, Virginia Houston, Texas Miami, Fla. Lenoir, North Carolina Goose Creek, South Carolina Pryor, Oklahoma (Under construction, delayed) Council Bluffs, Iowa (Under construction) International sites after the jump … INTERNATIONAL Toronto, Canada Berlin, Germany Frankfurt, Germany Munich, Germany Zurich, Switzerland Groningen, Netherlands Mons, Belgium Eemshaven, Netherlands Paris London Dublin, Ireland Milan, Italy Moscow, Russia Sao Paolo, Brazil Tokyo Hong Kong Beijing Most of the international locations likely are for network peering or to house servers supporting the more than 30 country-specific versions of the Google search engine. Google is in the cloud and the cloud is everywhere…you were just at Google HQ, a common mistake that many people make.
from the Google Data Center FAQ:
Where are Google’s data centers located?
Google has disclosed the sites of four new facilities announced in 2007, but many of its older data center locations remain under wraps. Much of Google’s data center equipment is housed in the company’s own facilities, but it also continues to lease space in a number of third-party facilities. Much of its third-party data center space is focused around peering centers in major connectivity hubs. Here’s our best information about where Google is operating data centers, building new ones, or maintaining equipment for network peering. Facilities we believe to be major data centers are bold-faced.

UNITED STATES
Mountain View, Calif.
Pleasanton, Calif.
San Jose, Calif.
Los Angeles, Calif.
Palo Alto, Calif.
Seattle
Portland, Oregon
The Dalles, Oregon
Chicago
Atlanta, Ga. (two sites)
Reston, Virginia
Ashburn, Va.
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Houston, Texas
Miami, Fla.
Lenoir, North Carolina
Goose Creek, South Carolina
Pryor, Oklahoma (Under construction, delayed)
Council Bluffs, Iowa (Under construction)
International sites after the jump …

INTERNATIONAL
Toronto, Canada
Berlin, Germany
Frankfurt, Germany
Munich, Germany
Zurich, Switzerland
Groningen, Netherlands
Mons, Belgium
Eemshaven, Netherlands
Paris
London
Dublin, Ireland
Milan, Italy
Moscow, Russia
Sao Paolo, Brazil
Tokyo
Hong Kong
Beijing
Most of the international locations likely are for network peering or to house servers supporting the more than 30 country-specific versions of the Google search engine.

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