| Economies of the Cloud: Going from 350 Servers to 35 |
| Written by Eric Novikoff | |
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Last week witnessed some interesting pronouncements at the Structure09 conference, in which the industry's leading lights had the chance to boast about their accomplishments. One that caught my eye was that LinkedIn "only" uses 350 servers.
I'm shocked to hear that a text-based service, even with millions of users, uses 350 servers, and that someone would think that was a relatively small number. Working here at ENKI with customers who do similar things to LinkedIn, I'd always assumed it would be 20-30 servers, at most. I can't help but think that LinkedIn isn't taking advantage of the latest automated virtualization management technologies, or there is some sort of inefficiency in their system. I'd love 350 servers of their business, but I think I'd be embarrassed to charge them for all those servers. Overall, they saw a 10x reduction in the number of servers needed to run their site. That's a cost savings for sure, but also 10x less greenhouse gases, something to be proud of. Applying a similar method to LinkedIn, they should be at around 35 servers, using technology similar to what we use (whether in their datacenter or ours.) What am I missing here?
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