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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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Microsoft knows how to build data centers

Posted Wednesday, October 01, 2008 2:11 PM by stevecla01
Damn. I got invited to the recent Data Center Experience event we hosted in our San Antonio data center last week but couldn’t make it. It sounds like I should have moved heaven and earth to go. The subject line of this post is from one of the attendees Read More...
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A third of servers going to MSFT, GOOG, YHOO?

Posted Friday, September 26, 2008 11:37 PM by stevecla01
  I read this today in a CIO magazine interview   ….more than one third of all the servers produced on the planet are going to only three buyers - Microsoft, Google and Yahoo Wow, that’s a lot of kit. No doubt some of it just got fired up in Read More...
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The Heat Is On In The Datacentre

Posted Thursday, September 18, 2008 6:59 PM by stevecla01
  Every now and then I get the chance to read The Economist – usually on a plane are train where I have no Internet access and fall back to information consumption from dead trees. The irony in that last statement is not lost on me when I read this Read More...
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Engineer accidentally deletes cloud

Posted Sunday, August 31, 2008 6:25 PM by stevecla01
  We’ve all done it – that’s what the recycle bin is for right? But deleting a whole “cloud”? You have to hand it to The Register for their headlines alone - Engineer accidentally deletes cloud . To be fair to XCalibre they held their hands up and Read More...
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Datacenter Cakes

Posted Friday, August 22, 2008 6:30 PM by stevecla01
Big news in Iowa – as Dave says , these events usually involve a shovel and hard hats but these information factories are becoming big news because of the scale and the new arms race that is underway. He noted a nugget from DataCenterKnowledge regarding Read More...
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Gates Threatens To Buy Millions And Millions Of Servers For Microsoft

Posted Friday, June 06, 2008 11:41 AM by stevecla01
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Tour Microsoft Data Centers

Posted Tuesday, May 27, 2008 2:24 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/27/tour-microsoft-data-centers.aspx'; Mike Manos on Data Centers Manos has been getting out a fair bit over the last month or two and it’s a good thing – this guy helps manage data centers that Read More...
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Are you listening, Microsoft?

Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 8:22 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/13/are-you-listening-microsoft.aspx'; ComputerWorld’s Eric Lai recently posted on 6 reasons why Microsoft's container-based approach to data centers won't work with a sub headline of Are you Read More...
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The Reality of The Cloud – Microsoft’s Data Center Strategy

Posted Tuesday, May 06, 2008 1:45 PM by stevecla01
digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/stevecla01/archive/2008/05/06/the-reality-of-the-cloud-microsoft-s-data-center-strategy.aspx'; A nice find by Dave over at Green Data Center Blog - Microsoft's Debra Chrapaty’s keynote our Data Center strategy . She spends Read More...
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