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Thu, 24 Feb 2011 20:46:16 +0000

[...] The new SGI isn’t wholly dependent on selling huge shared-memory systems to national labs, though. According to Barrenechea, the company doesn’t break down revenue by divisions, but it expects only about one-third of annual revenue to come from the traditional SGI products, with the remaining two-thirds split equally between services and the Rackable business line, which focuses on dense, energy-efficient servers for webscale data centers. The company has never really moved the needle in terms of overall server sales, but it does have some high-profile customers — including eBay, Carbonite, Microsoft, BT and Amazon — that contribute enough to the bottom line as they fill their data centers with Rackable gear. During a data-center build-out in 2008, Amazon bought $86 million worth of Rackable servers. [...]

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People Over Process » Numbers, Volume 6 — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 16:20:09 +0000

[...] How much does a cloud cost, part 2 Amazon spent $56 million on servers with Rackable in 2007, but boosted that to $86 million last year…. Microsoft (MSFT) bought about $126 million in Rackable equipment in 2007, but just $35 million in 2008, according to data from Rackable’s latest 10-K filing with the SEC. Yahoo (YHOO), which accounted for a quarter of Rackable’s revenue in 2007, no longer makes the list of the company’s largest customers. [...]

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[...] Amazon: $86 Million in Servers in 2008 « Data Center Knowledge Amazon bought more than $86 million in servers from Rackable Systems in 2008, surpassing Microsoft as the server maker’s largest customer. The investment in data center hardware is likely tied to the growth of Amazon Web Services, the retailer’s fast-growing cloud computing operation. Amazon (AMZN) doesn’t break out any revenue data for its AWS operation, but recently noted that its S3 storage service now stores 40 billion objects, an increase of 11 billion from October and three times the volume from a year ago. (tags: aws) [...]

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By: Girish

Girish — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 16:21:35 +0000

At 5K/server it is more than 17,000 servers…cool.