Comments on: Microsoft Unveils Its Container-Powered Cloud

By: Microsoft’s 224,000 Servers Fit Into 112 Containers and Only Take Four People to Set Up [Microsoft]

Wed, 23 Dec 2009 08:07:17 +0000

[...] Basically Microsoft is cutting down energy waste, saving on labor, and being all-around economical. While the modular, server-in-a-box approach might not get the stamp of revolutionary, the way Microsoft is approaching it is something worth paying attention to because it might just be what’ll help “meet the demand for cloud computing at scale.” [Data Center Knowledge] [...]

By: Albert Kong

Albert Kong — Wed, 04 Nov 2009 19:09:14 +0000

The next step is not just data clouds but knowledge clouds. There is an important difference, Data clouds are a static snapshot of the past and present. Almost literally since much of it are pictures of pets and children etc., but also lots of industrial and commercial data. The knowledge cloud is a snapshot of the underlying model generating tha data. Which means it can look at the past, present and most importantly the future. Knowledge clouds would actually help us make decisions.

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Thu, 15 Oct 2009 06:08:47 +0000

By: Microsoft がクラウド･コンテナを公開 « Agile Cat — Azure & Cloud — Talking Book

Tue, 06 Oct 2009 23:30:33 +0000

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By: kk

kk — Sun, 04 Oct 2009 00:15:21 +0000

Gee, if the OS was built properly you wouldn’t need hundreds of THOUSANDS of servers.

Just one or two, ok maybe a half a dozen x2 for redundancy.

But mainframes went out of vogue years ago because everybody body got fed up with Big Blue, so whats next when everybody gets fed up with Redmond.

By: lior

lior — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 23:47:37 +0000

To Jim –

The Sun Blackbox can only do about 250 servers… these MS container units hold 2000 servers per the article… Sun targets a different market not the cloud scale-out customers like MS.

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Thu, 01 Oct 2009 03:02:32 +0000

By: Microsoft’s 224,000 Servers Fit Into 112 Containers and Only Take Four People to Set Up | CanHazBlog.com

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:50:00 +0000

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By: Jim

Jim — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:26:44 +0000

I’m confused how is this different from Blackbox which was developed in 06

By: Microsoft’s 224,000 Servers Only Take Four People To Set Up | Gizmodo Australia

Thu, 01 Oct 2009 02:15:44 +0000

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