Google discusses its data centre infrastructure in Johannesburg

[Daniel Puchert]

The questions Google will answer about its South African cloud region — and those it won't

Google has shed some light on its data centre infrastructure in Johannesburg, saying that the environment's capacity is collocated with South African data centre operators and offers three forms of redundancy.

This is according to Google's director for strategic missions and partnerships, Clayton Naidoo, speaking during a press briefing at the launch of the Google Cloud environment on Wednesday.

 

[WAslayer]

TL;DR: literally a whole lot of nothing was said
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[OkPlankton]

Added Clayton on Linkedin, maybe I can land my dream job at Google.

 

[Johand]

So isn't it possible to determine the data centers by looking at pings/traceroute from different points? Or might they have gone the extra mile to include fiber loops?

 

[gregmcc]

Google has shed some light

Umm...no it hasn't

"we can’t disclose the partnership"
avoided questions about how much it cost
We have three forms of redundancy.....and then you don't go and list them. Might as well say we have ten forms of redundancy.