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Ask Amazon about its AWS data centres and you’ll get get this response: Amazon doesn’t talk about its data centres. Until its chief technology officer pitches in, that is. Werner Vogels closed London’s AWS Summit Wednesday by cracking open a little the black curtain that hides Amazon’s data centres from the world during a …

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  1. JonW

    Audio on a server

    With the big man on this - what possible use is it in 99.999% of deployments? Pretty sure it was still present in the last lot of SM boxes we rolled out and was certainly in Dells before we booted them into touch...

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    1. FrankAlphaXII
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      Re: Audio on a server

      I'm thinking there might be some kind of legacy reason for it or its there for edge cases for whatever reason. Then again, the first server I ever owned and built, the remnant of which are a P2 Xeon and its mainboard that I have on my wall, needed a sound card if you wanted sound.

      I never saw the need. I had a regular PC if I wanted sound.

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      1. Ian Michael Gumby
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        Boffin

        Re: Audio on a server

        What's the difference between a server motherboard and a high end workstation?

        Answer: The location of the box.

        So you design one MB to serve both roles.

        Cost savings for the hardware vendor. So what's a few watts of power?

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    2. Anonymous Coward
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      Re: Audio on a server

      "AWS is becoming to many what Windows once was: a platform for doing business."

      LOL @ utter claptrap. Azure is about to overtake Amazon AWS for total revenue. And it already makes more profit.

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      1. Naselus
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        Re: Audio on a server

        Not sure how you'd know that, given that Amazon doesn't publish either figure.

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      2. pjuk77
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        Re: Audio on a server

        No idea where you are getting your info from but according to this article on Forbes AWS is generating 10X the revenue of Azure.

        http://www.forbes.com/sites/louiscolumbus/2015/04/15/sizing-microsoft-azure-and-amazon-aws-revenue/

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        1. Anonymous Coward
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          Anonymous Coward

          Re: Audio on a server

          http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/07/28/azure_catching_up_on_aws/

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  2. James 47

    Dropped connections

    Did he explain why AWS continually drops established TCP connections to other AWS machines?

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  3. John 104

    Sales Pitch?

    This article was more sales pitch and regurgitating known practices than revealing of how big As infrastructure is set up. Yawn...

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  4. Stevie

    Bah!

    "There am many things in a traditional server environment that puzzles me."

    Fixed it for him.

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