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Microsoft’s Datacenter Vision

Last week there was a lot of discussion about some of the thinking about a future generation of data centers which become a lot more flexible, cost effective and quick to install and get on-line in the right locations. You can click on the video to see Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 4:21 AM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Environmental Sustainability

Who would have thought that 5 years ago there would be a director of “Environmental Sustainability” at Microsoft. Great that this has happened, and that there is someone thinking holistically about how we reduce the environmental impact. Adam talked to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, December 02, 2008 5:04 PM by neilhut | 0 Comments
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GREEN IT is like "LIVING WITH YOUR MOM" ??

Adam Carter did an interview with James Governor, who is an an analyst with RedMonk, when he was in town recently to present at the Virtualization event that took place in Bellevue.  He talks a lot of about how IT organizations should think about Read More...
Posted Monday, September 29, 2008 7:59 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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A New Microsoft Data Center in Des Moines IOWA

I guess Data centers are big news these days and where they are located ( when not placed on the San Andreas Fault ). This morning the Iowa Governor said in a press statement that Microsoft would build a 500M dollar data center in West Des Moines. Not Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 21, 2008 8:35 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments
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Building the Microsoft Data Center

When we are adding 10,000-20,000 servers to your data center every month, you need to have a pretty good architects and a plan for how you can reduce the carbon footprint. Secondly, have you ever heard about container-based data centers??? Read on. Mike Read More...
Posted Thursday, May 22, 2008 10:19 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments

Announcing `ITPRO BOT` - The Robot to Support the Datacenter

We have all seen the iRobot Roomba which helps clear the floors in your home, robots to keep your pets happy while you have gone, but we have been working on how robotics could help support personnel in the datacenter. So we were really excited when a Read More...
Posted Tuesday, April 01, 2008 7:25 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

Windows Server 2008 Performance Optimization

Adam in the team met with Bill Karagounis who is responsible for the performance enhancements in Windows Server 2008. He talks about some of the improvements that they have made in networking and Terminal Services plus a lot more details. Very cool and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 20, 2008 7:13 PM by neilhut | 1 Comments

WATTS UP : Reducing Power Consumption - GOING GREEN

So how much power does your PCs draw? How much more efficient are the new machines vs. the old machines??  And how do you figure that out the best options to go GREEN? You will be very surprised... These are the problems what Grant in out Platform Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 2:11 AM by neilhut | 3 Comments

Who will be the first to go GREEN?

The industry and certainly Microsoft has started to focus on Green issues. In particular our focus has been targeted on power management, which is where I think that we can have the most to impact the environment with software which puts machines in "sleep" Read More...
Posted Friday, December 07, 2007 10:39 AM by neilhut | 2 Comments
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