Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand
March 9th, 2010 admin
A few days ago, Jay Adelson, chief executive officer of San Francisco-based social media company, Digg , told me that his company now has hundreds of servers. And the size of its infrastructure was continuing to grow with its usage. And that is after the company has started to maximize its CPU usage after tapping the power of open source software such as Cassandra and Hadoop for data analytics and data mining. And it is not just Digg, but most mid-sized web companies like them are beginning to see the demands on their infrastructure increase, especially as they start to cater to more and more visitors, including those accessing them from smart mobile devices. Add to this the demand for enterprises, it is clear that we could soon see a bump in the sales of servers and by extension chips…
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