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Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Microsoft IT Numbers

Microsoft internal IT:

  • 600k connected devices
  • 10,000 Servers
  • 3 Datacenters 1 operations center
  • 11% is virtualized in Microsoft Datacenters
  • 330 of 385 servers run Windows Server 2008 (RC0) plus all 85 Microsoft.com servers
  • 11 clustered systems
  • 30,000 users in redmond domain (50,000 with vendors)
  • NAP reporting 140K clients, 90 clients deferred mode

The Redmond Active Directory domain is running in Windows Server 2008 mode since last thursday (Nov 1st)

Microsoft Email:

  • 6 million internal emails per day
  • 20 Million emails from Internet
  • 97% rejected as spam
  • 99,999 uptime

Worldwide:

  • 140,000 end users
  • 550 buildings
  • 98 countries
  • 1/3 of the sites are connected over Internet only
  • 2300 Line of business applications
  • 1 single SAP instance (5 Terrabyte database)
    Dynamics/MSCRM

Windows Live Services:

  • 130,000 servers online
  • 435 Million unique users
  • 280 Billion pageviews daily
  • 12 Billion emails daily
  • 6 billion Instant Messages daily

Remote connect

  • 1 million VPN sessions per month
  • 80,000 unique OWA users
  • Remote app portal
  • TS gateway 20,000 users
  • Direct Connect pilot

Microsoft.com figures

  • 55,7 million unique users, #4 overall site in US
  • 280,5 Unique users wordwide #6 site worldwide
  • 15,000 request a sec

The Redmond Active Directory domain is running in Windows Server 2008 mode since last thursday (Nov 1st)

Hate to be the guy that has to administer this monster.

Source: bink.nu

2 comments:

The Wraith said...

The Live services number seem to be yearly rather than daily.
there is no way Live services 435 million people with 600 pageview each day.

Mário Romano said...

Your right, I suppose it must be something like:

"The number of users that have logged on the Windows Live platform for the last ?? days".

Not the number of unique visitors as we log on sites.

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