Ten million servers! Gosh! According to a Googler, the internet giant is preparing to manage as many as 10 million servers in the future. The figure comes as a surprise as the firm has always shied away from mentioning how much servers does it employ to give search results within a fraction of a second.

According to Google’s Jeff Dean, the firm is currently working on a new storage and computation system called Spanner, which scale to 10 million machines in future and will seek to automate management of Google services across multiple data centers.

That includes automated allocation of resources across entire fleets of machines.

[via Data Center Knowledge]