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Ballmer: Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers in Datacenters, Only Second to Google
- pvnick 13y agoI don't think the author knows what a datacenter is
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoI know, and so does Steve Ballmer, I assume
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- prawks 13y agoFrom your article: We have something over a million servers in our datacenter infrastructure They do not have a million data centers, they have a combined million servers in their datacenters.
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoI understand the difference now, thank you!
- robododo 13y agoIt seems like you're still a bit confused. These might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Datacenter http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Server_(computing)
- joezydeco 13y ago"We know that the Redmond company has recently announced that they are planning a $677 datacenter expansion in west Des Moines Iowa" Maybe they have a million datacenters because they're super-cheap? I can't even paint my house for $677.
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoHas been updated, as well as the "server" issue thanks!
- onethumb 13y agoI still see "Microsoft now has more than one million datacenters" in the article. Haven't read the whole thing, either.
- astrodust 13y agoThis is the stuff a prime-time television writer would crank out. "Microsoft has one million internets, only second to Google."
- throwit1979 13y agodatacenters != servers
- CervezaPorFavor 13y agoEven the updated article is completely wrong! "Microsoft Has 1 Million Server Datacenters" - Uh, that's not what Ballmer meant. But as a link bait, this article must have been super successful.
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoIt wasn't even a link bait. I understood the difference only now. I am not an expert in the field, I agree, I didn't even thought it'd get this quickly in the top. Again, I didn't intend this to be a link bait, apologies!
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- saosebastiao 13y agoTIL Microsoft has 10x as many data centers as they have employees. Every employee gets 10 all to themselves!
- RaduTyrsina 13y ago"Steve Ballmer: Microsoft Has 1 Million Servers in their Datacenters, Only Second to Google" is this correct? again, apologies for the misleading title
- laumars 13y agoSo many errors with that article. And a few spelling mistakes too. I think people are better off going straight to the source instead of reading a poorly written re-interpretation of the source: http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-million-server-datacenters-7000017996/ http://www.zdnet.com/microsoft-million-server-datacenters-70...
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoI just love it how you folks always give it to the "zero spelling mistakes" website and all. You're simply giving no chance to other websites to evolve. I gave that source because they were first, not because they were exclusive. and it wasn't a reinterpretation of that source only.
- laumars 13y ago> "I just love it how you folks always give it to the "zero spelling mistakes" website and all. You're simply giving no chance to other websites to evolve. I gave that source because they were first, not because they were exclusive." I'm all for promoting smaller websites. In fact I manage a few myself. However I don't see why people should read an article that's just a rewording of someone else's article, where there's no individual research going on, and where it also manages to get the fundamental core of the article completely wrong (ie the scale of Microsoft's serving infrastructure). That's inexcusable given the whole point of news items is to inform / educate the readers. I was happy to ignore how poorly written the content was as I assumed that either English isn't your first language or that you're dyslexic. As someone who's dyslexic myself - I completely sympathise with how hard formal writing can be. And if you are either of the aforementioned, then I think it's credit that you're not letting it hold you back. However it costs all of 2 minutes to run a spell checker and the improvement that has on the overall "feel" of the article is massive. *> "and it wasn't a reinterpretation of that source only." I labelled it as such because of the factual errors present in yours that didn't exist in the original. In essence, you read the original, then rewrote it as you interpreted it.
- TallGuyShort 13y agoI understand you're getting a lot of criticism and I sympathize, but if you're going to make comments about what it means to be a journalist, you should probably have someone proofreading your articles. There are some pretty distracting errors in your writing, such as words missing from sentences, etc. Also, if you don't know the difference between a server and a datacenter you should be very careful when writing articles about the state of the industry. Spreading false information without doing due diligence to be informed is irresponsible. Again, I sympathize with all the criticism that's headed your way, but you would do well to not respond too defensively and to learn from this experience.
- cliveowen 13y agoWow, 1 million servers across all of their datacenters. I wish I could visit such an operation just to get a sense of the scale. And how do you exactly manage that much compute/storage capacity? Amazing.
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoPhew, Clive, this should've been the first comment I got, not all this :( I guess the answer to your question is this - http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895144.aspx http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb895144.aspx
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoBy the way, if some moderator reads this, the story has been pulled of because of its stupid mistake?
- taylodl 13y agoEven when corrected for number of servers this tells us essentially nothing. How much compute and storage capacity does Microsoft have compared to Google and Amazon? I'm not talking raw hardware performance either, but Windows Server vs. Google's customized server OS. This kind of information would provide us better insight into their computational capabilities.
- RaduTyrsina 13y agoI think that's a lil' bit hard to quantify