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By Stacy Griggs
Last week RackSpace had an outage that impacted their cloud, Amazon (EC2) had a similar outage at their Virginia datacenter earlier this month. Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere are filled with predictions that these events are a black eye for cloud computing because sites like Brizzley and TechCrunch were down. The real reason those sites were offline has little to do with cloud computing. These sites were down because their cloud platform was located in single datacenter (Note – it is not uncommon for providers to host all of a clients cloud instances in single datacenter). When cloud providers offer support for multiple datacenters, clients have to expressly elect this option and pay extra for it. For example in the Amazon Cloud you can purchase additional instances in different availability zones. You are charged for the data transfer between instances plus the cost of the redundant instances, which can more than double the cost of your solution.
The reason many public clouds are hosted in a single facility is simple, there are significant cost involved with implementing global server load balancing and maintaining a hot secondary site. Early adaptors of the cloud (eg not enterprise customers) were often not willing to pay for this level of redundancy. While most cloud environments are highly available because of their lack of dependence on single hardware nodes they continue to be vulnerable to a failure of power or loss of connectivity at the facility in which they are housed. As enterprise customers have migrated to cloud computing environments, this has been part of the cloud that they understand least.
Hulu wrapped up a banner year, registering a record number of unique users and a record number of video streams, according to data from comScore’s Video Metrix. With more than 924 million videos viewed in November, the online video site could easily end December with more than a billion views.
Maybe a year ago it would have seemed unlikely for the fledgling video site to reach a billion views, but now it seems totally within reach. Growth slowed in November, with the number of videos viewed increasing just 8 percent from the previous month, compared to a record 47 percent increase from September to October. Even so, Hulu video views need only grow another 8 percent month-to-month for the site to top 1 billion views by the end of the year. And if it doesn’t hit a billion views by year-end, you bet it will crack a billion in January, with franchise hits like 24 returning next month.
Month-to-month growth might have slowed, but the site showed incredible year-over-year growth, with the number of monthly users increasing 95 percent from November 2008, and the number of streams increasing a whopping 307 percent over the same time period, according to a blog post by Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.
The growth in videos viewed comes in part due to the number of videos available. Kilar writes that the site has grown to more than 200 content partners, up from 130 a year ago. And that’s led to an impressive growth in the number of videos viewers can choose from on the site, with more than 14,000 hours of video available, compared to about 5,600 at this point in 2008.
So what were users watching on the site? A lot of Saturday Night Live, for one thing. SNL led the site in total views, and also had the top video clip viewed on the site in 2009, the Andy Samberg–Justin Timberlake collaboration Motherlover. Comedy led the way, with Family Guy, The Office, The Simpsons, American Dad, and The Daily Show all in the top 10. Also sneaking into the top 10 were Japanese anime sensation Naruto Shippuden, musical comedy hit Glee, and Fox medical drama House.
Hulu wrapped up a banner year, registering a record number of unique users and a record number of video streams, according to data from comScore’s Video Metrix. With more than 924 million videos viewed in November, the online video site could easily end December with more than a billion views.
Maybe a year ago it would have seemed unlikely for the fledgling video site to reach a billion views, but now it seems totally within reach. Growth slowed in November, with the number of videos viewed increasing just 8 percent from the previous month, compared to a record 47 percent increase from September to October. Even so, Hulu video views need only grow another 8 percent month-to-month for the site to top 1 billion views by the end of the year. And if it doesn’t hit a billion views by year-end, you bet it will crack a billion in January, with franchise hits like 24 returning next month.
Month-to-month growth might have slowed, but the site showed incredible year-over-year growth, with the number of monthly users increasing 95 percent from November 2008, and the number of streams increasing a whopping 307 percent over the same time period, according to a blog post by Hulu CEO Jason Kilar.
The growth in videos viewed comes in part due to the number of videos available. Kilar writes that the site has grown to more than 200 content partners, up from 130 a year ago. And that’s led to an impressive growth in the number of videos viewers can choose from on the site, with more than 14,000 hours of video available, compared to about 5,600 at this point in 2008.
So what were users watching on the site? A lot of Saturday Night Live, for one thing. SNL led the site in total views, and also had the top video clip viewed on the site in 2009, the Andy Samberg–Justin Timberlake collaboration Motherlover. Comedy led the way, with Family Guy, The Office, The Simpsons, American Dad, and The Daily Show all in the top 10. Also sneaking into the top 10 were Japanese anime sensation Naruto Shippuden, musical comedy hit Glee, and Fox medical drama House.
We’re not just counting down to the ball dropping tonight, but also Fox channels disappearing off some Time Warner Cable users’ TVs, if the two companies can’t agree on fees for broadcast channels appearing on cable.
So it’s come to this: Time Warner has posted a 3-minute web video explaining how to connect your PC to your TV so you can watch Internet video on sites like Hulu and Fancast. Yes, you heard that right, a CABLE COMPANY is giving step-by-step directions to show users how they can make it irrelevant. Of course, it’s all in the name of blasting Fox for giving away content online for free while expecting TWC to pay for it. But meanwhile, TWC is showing users the very cables with which they can cut the cord.
Thanks very much to Peter Kafka at MediaMemo for screengrabbing the video and putting it up in an embeddable format:
