Google's proprietary method of storing search indexes. Google File System (GFS) is a distributed file system used in Google's datacenters, and it was embedded in a search appliance that Google used to ...

Google is the pioneer of big data. Technologies such as Google File System (GFS), BigTable and MapReduce formed the basis for open source Hadoop, which, more than any other technology, has brought big ...

Google LLC today published a technical blog post detailing Colossus, the internal file system that powers Google Cloud and many of the company’s consumer services, including its namesake search engine ...

A rack-mounted computer from Google that was used to index documents for a company. Introduced in 2002, the device was dropped in 2018 in favor of its cloud-based replacement. Using Google's ...

Editor's take: In Colossus: The Forbin Project, an advanced supercomputer becomes sentient and enslaves humankind. Colossus is also the name of the storage platform where almost all of Google's ...