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BotchagalupeMarks for March 25th – 07:53
By John | March 26, 2009
These are my links for March 25th from 07:53 to 08:55:
- The Efficient Cloud: All Of Salesforce Runs On Only 1,000 Servers – Salesforce talked about its own back-end infrastructure and revealed that all of Salesforce.com runs on only about 1,000 servers. And that is mirrored, so it is really only 500. Think about that for a minute. Salesforce has more than 55,000 enterprise customers, 1.5 million individual subscribers, 30 million lines of third-party code, and hundreds of terabytes of data all running on 1,000 machines. Amazon’s Web Services, in comparison, runs on about 100,000 machines I am told by someone with knowledge of Amazon’s server infrastructure.
- Brocade CEO Discusses Cisco Servers « Data Center Knowledge – In this video, Brocade CEO Mike Klayko comments on Cisco’s announcement last week that it will enter the blade server market. It’s no surprise that his comments mention IBM, HP and Dell, all server vendors who partner with both Cisco and Brocade. Will these companies align more tightly with Brocade now? This video runs about 2 minutes, 45 seconds.
- Jane's E-Learning Pick of the Day: Computer software in plain English – Great tool for open source in the hood (in my next life)
- Pentaho Commercial Open Source Business Intelligence: News Release – Based on existing customer successes and growing customer demand, Pentaho is introducing a Cloud Computing Edition, packaged for deployment on the Amazon EC2 Cloud, providing companies with another way to drive down the cost of bringing BI into their organizations.
- News – More than 6,000 firms a day join Twitter – Now they need to get smarted on how they use twitter.
- YouTube – How to calculate fractals in the cloud –
- Amazon SimpleDB Batch Put, More Attributes Per Domain – SimpleDB just keeps getting better and better
- Amazon Web Services Blog: New AWS Toolkit for Eclipse – Cool Tools
Topics: other | 2 Comments »
March 25th, 2009 at 10:59 am
Just wanted to chime in on the ‘Salesforce runs on 500 servers’ thing. Consider that the main Salesforce app gets in the millions of unique visitors per-month. Compared to Amazon (50-60 million), it barely registers. The number of customers, individual subscribers, etc. is an awesome number, but it has little to do with making the argument they are hyper-efficient. Comparing Salesforce to AWS is even crazier.
This is like a single rose looking at a botanical garden and going: “look at al this beauty packed into this super-efficient frame!”
It may be that they are very efficient – but any comparison to AWS is lunacy.
March 25th, 2009 at 11:31 am
As always I totaly agree…