"Nobody builds servers as unreliably as we do," Mr. Hölzle said in a speech last year at CERN, the Swiss…

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"Nobody builds servers as unreliably as we do," Mr. Hölzle said in a speech last year at CERN, the Swiss particle physics institute. Google is reducing cost while maintaining performance by shifting the burden of reliability from hardware to software — individual hardware components can fail, but software automatically shifts the local task and the data to other machines.

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