Google File System (GFS) paper published

Google researchers Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung published their seminal paper, 'The Google File System,' detailing how Google stored massive amounts of data across clusters of commodity machines.

Significance

This paper provided the fundamental architectural inspiration for Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), demonstrating a robust, scalable, and fault-tolerant way to manage large files.