Google File System (GFS) Publication

Sanjay Ghemawat, Howard Gobioff, and Shun-Tak Leung published 'The Google File System,' detailing Google's scalable distributed file system.

Significance

This paper revealed the blueprint for Google's internal infrastructure, which would directly inspire and underpin later cloud storage offerings, including GCS. It demonstrated how to build massive, fault-tolerant storage from commodity hardware.