The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets

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."

Comments

Re:where did they get their numbers from?

[Galestar]

18.000.000 cpus in 6.400.000 systems is on AVERAGE 2.812 CPUs

Okay, fine. You want to use periods instead of commas for separating thousands... at least have the decency of using a different separator to mark the decimal point! Does your "2.812" actually mean "2,812" or "2.812"? My calculator tells me that its "2.812", but why should I have to re-do your calculations just to read what you've written?

I find it hard to believe that so many people mod-ed you up to 5: Insightful when I doubt half those people actually read (and were able to understand) what you were talking about. Chalk it up to the phenomenon of mod points just for filling up space.

Re:where did they get their numbers from?

[sopssa]

I'm quite certain they did understood all of it and weren't just nitpicking like you. While I personally think it's good to use space as thousand separator and period as decimal point ("18 000 000 cpus in 6 400 000 systems is on AVERAGE 2.812 CPUs"), I didn't even notice that thing and perfectly understood what he meant.

Re:where did they get their numbers from?

[johndiii]

Not 95%. Not even close, with both China and India using the period.

Re:where did they get their numbers from?

[johndiii]

Oops. Period for the radix point in those countries, not as a digit separator.