The Biggest Cloud Providers Are Botnets

Posted by CmdrTaco on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @01:35AM 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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Re:How long before... by dogfolife69 · 2010-03-23 01:50 · Score: 1, Troll

dude... your killing my secret plan here, i have been working on joining different botnets together using AI technology, and the more botnets are connected, the more powerful they get
Microsoft is the biggest cloud provider ... by Lazy+Jones · 2010-03-23 01:51 · Score: 1, Troll

... with their 0-day exploitable Windows installations.

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