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Microsoft Chicago Data Center Container Bay   I love Dave’s GreenM3 blog – it’s my go to place for data center news. So much so that I just got the info about our own Chicago data center opening over at his site. Of particular interest was the coverage Read More...
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I’m in sunny Dublin today (yep, it’s sunny here) for the grand opening of Microsoft’s first “ mega datacenter ” outside of the US. What you may ask is a mega datacenter? Well basically it’s an enormous facility from we’ll deliver our cloud services to Read More...
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Cool video about how data centers are becoming like Lego – though I was a bit baffled by what looked like a raised floor. This is from Chris Crosby of Digital Realty Trust which is where Mike Manos landed after leaving Microsoft. You can find out more Read More...
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Our Global Foundation Services team posted on their blog yesterday about two more mega data centers coming online next month:   July marks the launch of our two newest mega data centers in Chicago and Dublin. Our Dublin facility will go live on July Read More...
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[Photo: Simon Norfolk for The New York Times] The swinging door at Yahoo! continues as today we announced Kevin Timmons has joined Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services Team (aka GFS). I seem to talk more and more about GFS lately as our datacenters become Read More...
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Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision   Hmm, I’d always thought Gen4 was the brainchild of Mike Manos (and perhaps even James Hamilton)….but in the latest blog post from our Global Foundation Services (aka data center team) Arne Josefsberg Read More...
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I saw an internal email regarding a webcast called Transforming the Data Center with Energy Efficiency and assumed it was an internal only event. To my surprise the link took me to our Technet site and it turns out this is a public webcast. A 2 hour webcast Read More...
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Celebrating Earth Day , our GFS team published their Top 10 Business Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers – quite a mouthful that and though there is some cynicism around this topic, the paper they’ve published has some real nuggets Read More...
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Last week Mike Manos posted a blog entry and video on Generation 4 datacenters from Microsoft. This short TechNet EDGE video with Christian Belady and David Gauthier goes in to some more detail on these revolutionary datacenters. They talk through some Read More...
Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision   Lovin that video – I want to see those Windows Azure trucks rolling down my street! Fun aside, the Generation 4 data centers that are depicted here and talked about at length on Mike Manos’s blog Read More...
[image credit NY Times] BusinessWeek published an interesting take on the brewing data center wars this week . They interviewed Debra Chrapaty, our Corporate Vice President of Global Foundation Services who is pretty bullish about our plans and progress. Read More...
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ARCast.TV - Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership Slowly but surely I’m slipping to to being a data center geek and there is nobody better to learn from in Microsoft than Michael Manos. His is da man. He works in GFS (Global Foundation Services) and Read More...
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I was thinking a few weeks ago that if I were a server OEM I would be spending my time selling to Amazon , Google and Microsoft. When companies are buying servers in lots of 10,000 there is a compelling reason to do so.  That’s exactly what Dell Read More...
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The big analyst houses are ramping up the noise around cloud computing of late. This week IDC says Cloud Services will generate $42 billion revenue by 2012 which is hot on the heels of Gartner putting Cloud Computing at #2 in its top 10 technologies to Read More...
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I’m reading a lot about data centers of late – so much so that I’m even spelling it the US way already (sigh). What is becoming increasingly clear to me though is that PUE may well be the new battleground between some of the industry heavyweights. In Read More...
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