HostingCon 2010: By the Numbers

More than 1,600 attendees, a new record for the show, participated at this year's conference.

Here are a few fun facts about HostingCon and the Web hosting providers and IT companies participating at the conference held in Austin, Texas on July 19-21.

4: Number of versions, and latest release of BackupAgent’s (Booth 233) online backup software platform.

22: Number of HostingCon 2010 sessions directly addressing the cloud.

95: In degrees F, this is the average daytime high for Austin in July.

110: Number of countries that represent Web hosting leader, SoftLayer’s (Booth 213) customer base.

575: Number of network service providers serviced by Equinix- Booth 119

48,000: Number of servers under management at The Planet - Booth 124

250,191: Amount of square feet of data center space available from Hostway - Booth 129

304,000: Approximate number HP (Booth 120) employees worldwide.

50,000,000: The number of lines of code estimated to be in Microsoft (Booth 112) Vista.

3,900,000,000: Amount in USD Dell (Booth 140) spent on the acquisition of Perot Systems in Nov. ‘09.

Source: TopHosts.com Web hosting Blog