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E-Commerce Spending Reaches Record Breaking Levels in 2011
Feb 7th
For the ninth consecutive quarter, the fourth quarter of 2011 achieved strong year-over-year growth in online retail spending. The recent report, which was released by the leading online market researcher comScore, indicated a 14% increase in sales compared to the fourth quarter in 2010. Online retailers raked in an impressive $49.7 billion in sales. Also, [...]
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Amazon S3 Reports Record Breaking Growth
Jan 30th
Amazon Web Services just reported jaw-dropping growth in the number of objects stored in Amazon S3 year over year.
“As of the end of 2011, there are 762 billion (762,000,000,000) objects in Amazon S3. We process over 500,000 requests per second for these objects at peak times,” AWS Evangelist Jeff Bar wrote on the company’s blog tonight. The company reported 262 billion objects in storage in Q4 of 2010. “This represents year-over-year growth of 192%; S3 grew faster last year than it did in any year since it launched in 2006.” Independent analysts say this is indicative of the growth of the cloud in general and of Amazon’s striking dominance of the market.
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“Stunning, isn’t it?” Randy Bias, co-founder of Cloudscaling said to me about the news by email. “From 150% to almost 200% growth. That’s crazy. 500,000 requests per second at peak. Blows my mind.”
Bias says these are the big take-aways.
“S3 growth is accelerating, not just increasing. If other AWS services are accelerating similarly then we will see a major shift this year in AWS usage and likely revenue reporting in SEC filings.
“This is the largest storage system in the world bar none; there isn’t anything like it anywhere else that I’m aware of unless it’s some secret government/NSA vault.
“Check my math, but at 1Kbyte average per object, that would be 780PB of disk storage:
- 762,000,000,000 * 1024 (traditional KB)
- 780288000000000 / 1000 (KB for disk) / 1000 (MB for disk) / 1000 (GB for disk) / 1000 (PB for disk) [ disk capacity is in even 1,000 increments, not multiples of 2 ]
- That’s 780PB, but unclear if that’s replicated or unreplicated; probably replicated, which means 260PB of data with 3x replication.
- Average of 1Kbyte is probably too low.
- At 100TB per storage system that is 7,222 storage *servers*, each with 36 spindles at 3TB each; that might not be their configuration, but even if it’s 2 or 3 times as dense, that is a *lot* of storage servers.
- At those numbers, it’s a 26M/month business and a 300M/year run rate, which means it’s still roughly 30% of AWS revenue with EC2 being most of the rest.“I don’t understand how people can’t see this kind of thing and just have their jaw hit the floor. People are paying for this. At this rate they will have 2 TRILLION objects in another year and it will be a $600M/year business.”
What’s behind such numbers? Widespread technology change.
“What we are seeing is the geometric explosion of cloud growth from multiple points,” Constellation Research analyst Ray Wang told ReadWriteWeb.
“First, broad based adoption driven by consumerization of IT. Second, the shift from transaction to engagement – we have social, mobile, analytical, and other unstructured data. Third, true elasticity has come to fruition as the promise of the cloud gets delivered. People are taking to the cloud because the tools are easy to use and they don’t have time or money to provision expensive servers. Instead they are using elasticity, which was the original premise of AWS. We could see it happening last year but this leap in growth is tremendous.”
Dave Linthicum, CTO and Founder of Blue Mountain Labs, says Amazon’s dominance is clear. “The rapid growth of AWS S3 is pretty much in-line with what I’m seeing in enterprises adopting cloud computing. The reality is that they are the 800 pound gorilla, and continue to gain weight. Unless they do something stupid, they are the storage provider to beat.”
Ray Wang concurs. “There are only a few companies in the world who can compete with Amazon,” he told me by IM tonight.
“It has established itself as one of the leading contenders. The barriers of entry are high. Very few folks can afford to build the data centers, the software infrastructure, and momentum to be profitable. Amazon is in the same league as Google, Microsoft, IBM, etc. The only other folks that could do it if they woke up are the telco’s – but we’ve all been telling them that for years. They haven’t paid attention.”
Amazon’s Barr explains the growth thusly. “Although we definitely made it easier for you to delete objects using Multi-Object Deletion and Object Expiration, we also gave you plenty of ways to upload new objects using Multipart upload, AWS Direct Connect, and AWS Import/Export,” he wrote in his blog post. He concluded by noting that running a system so complex is hard work and pointed to open jobs at AWS.
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SEO Specialist Scott D Smith Celebrates Record Success in Increasing Business … – PR Web (press release)
Jan 26th
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SEO Specialist Scott D Smith Celebrates Record Success in Increasing Business …
PR Web (press release) Marking a key year of growth in a competitive market in the close of 2011, British search engine optimization (SEO) expert Scott D Smith looks ahead with a renewed sense of optimism for the continued success of his consultancy business http://www. |
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DuckDuckGo Sets New Traffic Record, But Stats Show How Dominant Google, Others Are
Jan 25th
DuckDuckGo, the upstart search engine that’s challenged its bigger competitors on privacy issues, has had a couple straight days of record-setting traffic. But the numbers show just how much the major search engines dominate the search space. First, let’s recognize how cool it is that…
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Wikimedia’s Creepy Fundraising Campaign Breaks Record Again
Jan 2nd
The Wikimedia Foundation, parent organization of Wikipedia and other super-wikis, closed out its annual fundraising campaign with another record-breaking haul. The campaign raised $20 million, about 71% of its planned operating budget this year. Donations have risen every year since the campaigns began in 2003.
Wikipedia serves more than 470 million unique visitors every month, and it doesn’t pay for all that bandwidth with advertising. This annual fundraising campaign provides the bulk of Wikimedia’s funding, and the rest comes from gifts and grants like the one Sergey Brin and Anne Wojcicki made for $500,000 in November.
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Wikimedia’s planned spending this year is $28.3 million. The funds raised in this campaign will go toward key operating costs like servers and other hardware, as well as expanding mobile services, covering legal costs and supporting volunteers around the world.
As usual, creepy Jimmy Wales pics adorned Wikipedia pages throughout the campaign. This year’s pleas also featured volunteer editors from all over the world. You may find it creepy, but these sultry faces and their hilarious juxtapositions must be working.
“Our model is working fantastically well,” says Wikimedia’s executive director, Sue Gardner. “Ordinary people use Wikipedia and they like it, so they chip in some cash so it will continue to thrive.”
As the volunteer-run encyclopedia has grown, it has shown signs of stress. Editorial work has fallen behind, held back by a difficult markup language and some snooty veteran editors. But Wikipedia is an irreplaceable online institution now, and the ongoing success of its fundraising campaigns proves it. If Wikimedia can scare us into donating to keep its vast resources alive and ad-free, more power to it.
Check your browser history. How many times did you visit Wikipedia in the past week?
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Record Breaking Sales Mark the Beginning of the Tablet Wars
Dec 12th
After enjoying a hugely successful Thanksgiving holiday weekend, Tablet manufacturers have made it clear that there is space for competitors in the open market for companies other than Apple. The HTC Flyer, BlackBerry PlayBook, and the Kindle Fire amongst other devices entered at price points which in some cases are less than half the price [...]
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October 2011 Sets Video Viewing Record With 21.1 Hours Per Viewer – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 29th
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October 2011 Sets Video Viewing Record With 21.1 Hours Per Viewer
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New YouTube Record: 20+ Billion Video Views in October
Nov 29th
The latest comScore Video Metrix data has just been announced and Facebook has jumped from the No. 5 online video content property in September 2011 to the No. 2 property in October. And Schmooru, Warner Bros (The Ellen Show), and BigFrame have el…
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Click Consult Announce Record Results for the 2010/2011 Financial Year – PR Web (press release)
Nov 13th
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Click Consult Announce Record Results for the 2010/2011 Financial Year
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Watch The LSU-Alabama Game Online & Help CBS Break A Live Streaming Record – ReelSEO Online Video News
Nov 2nd
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Watch The LSU-Alabama Game Online & Help CBS Break A Live Streaming Record
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