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The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the resistance-is-futile dept.

Julie188 writes "Google is made up of 500,000 systems, 1 million CPUs and 1,500 gigabits per second (Gbps) of bandwidth, according to cloud service provider Neustar. Amazon comes in second with 160,000 systems, 320,000 CPUs and 400 Gbps of bandwidth, while Rackspace offers 65,000 systems, 130,000 CPUs and 300 Gbps. But these clouds are dwarfed by the likes of the really big cloud services, otherwise known as botnets. Conficker controls 6.4 million computer systems in 230 countries, with more than 18 million CPUs and 28 terabits per second of bandwidth."

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  1. How long before... by Lord+Lode · · Score: 3, Interesting

    How long before these botnets are so big and complex that they become similar in structure to the human brain and start thinking on their own?

  2. interesting... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Interesting

    So it's actually Windows which is good at distributed computing...

  3. Does this mean Microsoft has the lead? by miffo.swe · · Score: 3, Interesting

    Does the fact that 100% of these machines run Windows XP/Vista/7 mean that Microsoft is the biggest supplier of Cloud OS computing software (if you disregard the small patches from the botnet owners)?

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