Web’s Buildout Boosting Server Chip Demand – GigaOM
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.
