Who Has the Most Web Servers? - May 14 2009

There was a milestone buried deep within the earnings tables in this week’s first quarter results from Rackspace: "the San Antonio company has become one of a select number of companies that have more than 50,000 servers. Rackspace reports that as of March 30 the company’s data centers house 50,038 servers, up from 47,518 at the end of 2008. Of the companies that publicly report their server counts, only European hosts 1&1 Internet and OVH have more than Rackspace. Here’s a look at some of the providers with high server counts, gleaned from public reports and partial data from a recent Netcraft server count report:"

• 1&1 Internet: 55,000 servers (company)
• OVH: 55,000 servers (company)
• Rackspace: 50,038 servers (company)
• The Planet: 48,500 servers (company)
• Akamai Technologies: 48,000 servers (company)
• SBC Communications: 29,193 servers (Netcraft)
• Verizon: 25,788 servers (Netcraft)
• Time Warner Cable: 24,817 servers (Netcraft)
• SoftLayer: 21,000 servers (company)
• AT&T: 20,268 servers (Netcraft)
• Peer1/ServerBeach: 10,277 servers (company)
• iWeb: 10,000 servers (company)

VMware Expands vCloud Portfolio With Zimbra

"Zimbra is a great example of the type of scalable 'cloud era' solutions that can span smaller, on-premise implementations to the cloud. It will be a building block in an expanding portfolio of solutions that can be offered as a virtual appliance or by a cloud service provider. We are excited to welcome the Zimbra team and community to the VMware family."

VMware is obviously looking to build out its stack of cloud infrastructure.