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NY Times on Google vs. Microsoft

Posted By Rich Miller On August 17, 2009 @ 7:06 am In Microsoft | 1 Comment

As we’ve often noted here at DCK, data centers are the front line on many business battles of the Internet age, including the rivalry between Microsoft and Google. Ashlee Vance at The New York Times [1] examines how the two companies approach their data center operations this morning on the Bits blog, noting Microsoft’s roof-less Generation 4 design [2] and the company’s recent decision to migrate its Windows Azure [3] operations out of Washington State for tax reasons.

About Rich Miller [4]

Rich Miller is the founder and editor-in-chief of Data Center Knowledge, and has been reporting on the data center sector since 2000. He has tracked the growing impact of high-density computing on the power and cooling of data centers, and the resulting push for improved energy efficiency in these facilities.

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URLs in this post:

[1] The New York Times: http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/in-the-new-data-center-its-roofs-off-and-taxes-down/

[2] Generation 4 design: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2008/12/02/microsoft-goes-all-in-on-container-data-centers/

[3] migrate its Windows Azure: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/08/05/microsoft-migrates-azure-citing-tax-laws/

[4] Rich Miller: http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/author/richm/

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