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>> I have yet to see costs to saving, cost savings associated with the cloud. phonetic If integration is needed, the cost factors are no longer relevant. Your thoughts?
>> So, let's see, the eBay inaudible of the cloud, we're gonna build a private cloud using Azure. It's been publicly announced, so I'm not revealing anything secret. The whole intent is to build an eBay version of the cloud that, you know, we can run in either our data center, or if we need to, in a Microsoft data center. So eBay, if you don't know it, from February through November is, you know it's, the volume's huge, but it's really flat and consistent. But then in November it, we get these enormous peaks, cause people are buying things for the holidays. And then it tails off again a little bit at Christmas time, and then it goes right back up again as people are selling all the stuff they got for Christmas. So, but right now we have to build a data center than can accommodate that peak. And I don't know what it was this year. I know we broke the record in 2010 again, but previous year was 25.8 gigabits per second to the site, which is just off the charts. So we have to have; be able to have that kind of capacity in our data center plus headroom for the growth every year. That costs an awful lot of money. We are literally at the point where we may have to go build another data center. If I can run, build an enterprise version of eBay that runs either in my data center or theirs, I can take that peak increase there and burst that into Microsoft's data center instead of having to go build another data center to do it. You're talking hundreds of millions of dollars in savings. Yeah. The electrical savings is in the hundred million dollar a year range. The green capability it gives me, not just to be a good corporate citizen, but here in California where it's actually mandated, is huge. So those are the kinds of things that you're going to start to see, and that you are seeing that are gonna drive this thing so fast. It's actually accelerating.
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