Anyone who's been to a conference where someone from MSFT's been talking about "How Microsoft Does IT" has probably heard this or something similar but these stats are just awesome I think (Source: Bink.nu):
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 Terabyte database)
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
- TS gateway 20,000 users
Microsoft.com figures:
- 55.7 million unique users, #4 overall site in US
- 280.5 Million unique users worldwide, #6 site worldwide
- 15,000 requests a second