'Today' considers data retention and IMP

[John Wilson]

On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 7:29 PM, Igor Mozolevsky <igor@hybrid-lab.co.uk> wrote:
> 2009/1/12 Igor Mozolevsky:
>
>> AFAIK, DNS is not context-aware, so no matter where you type
>> 'mail.google.com' you will always get a bunch of addresses from the
>> same address pool.
>
> D-uh! Of course that's not true! Have no idea what I was thinking when
> I was writing that, apologies for the confusion :-) Next time I
> definitely need to have coffee before engaging the brain. Anyhow, like
> I said before, that still doesn't bring us closer to knowing whether
> data is stored and processed locally or stateside.

I don't know if you've read this about their file system
http://labs.google.com/papers/gfs.html

It would appear that the data can be replicated on several machines in
several locations.

John Wilson