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Microsoft’s containers roll in to the data center

Posted Thursday, October 01, 2009 5:50 PM by stevecla01
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’ve seen the cloud…it lives in Dublin

Posted Thursday, September 24, 2009 1:14 PM by stevecla01
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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Data centers are just like Lego

Posted Wednesday, September 02, 2009 9:48 PM by stevecla01
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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Two More Microsoft Mega Datacenters next month

Posted Tuesday, June 30, 2009 12:08 PM by stevecla01
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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Another Yahoo Lands at Microsoft

Posted Monday, June 22, 2009 10:45 PM by stevecla01
[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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More on Microsoft’s Gen 4 data centers

Posted Tuesday, April 28, 2009 1:55 AM by stevecla01
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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Get Insight from a Microsoft Data Center

Posted Thursday, April 23, 2009 9:35 AM by stevecla01
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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Top 10 Business Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 10:31 PM by stevecla01
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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Microsoft & Google: Datacenters on Different Paths

Posted Tuesday, December 09, 2008 12:09 PM by stevecla01
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...
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Microsoft: Making Data Centers Like Lego

Posted Wednesday, December 03, 2008 8:20 PM by stevecla01
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...
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Microsoft, Google and Cloud Wars

Posted Wednesday, November 26, 2008 12:17 PM by stevecla01
[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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Michael Manos on Datacenter Leadership

Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 3:08 PM by stevecla01
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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Dell Powers Microsoft Azure

Posted Sunday, November 02, 2008 4:01 PM by stevecla01
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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Huge Clouds Ahead

Posted Wednesday, October 22, 2008 10:08 PM by stevecla01
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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Is PUE the new battleground?

Posted Tuesday, October 21, 2008 9:47 PM by stevecla01
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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