The 40,000-servers club

The widespread use of the Internet and the growing popularity of web applications has fueled a surge in demand for datacenters across the globe. The popularity of virtualization sated the public's appetite for datacenter space somewhat. Still, companies continue to deploy large numbers of servers as they rollout web-based services.

Based on public reports and partial data from a recent Netcraft server count report, Data Center Knowledge came out with an interesting list of organizations with a large number of servers. Here are some of the largest:

• Google:  The current King of the Internet; some current estimates peg it at 450,000 servers
• Microsoft: A screenshot of a data center management software in mid-2008 suggests that Microsoft had 218,000 servers at that time
• 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers
• Rackspace: 50,038 servers
• The Planet: 48,500 servers
• Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers
• OVH: 40,000 servers

You can check out the rest of the list at Data Center Knowledge.

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