Comments on: Microsoft To Cut Data Center Costs in Half

By: AWS: Forget the Revenue, Did You See the Margins? – tecosystems

AWS: Forget the Revenue, Did You See the Margins? – tecosystems — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 16:30:01 +0000

[...] widely acknowledged market leader: a half a billion dollars is approximately what Microsoft spent per datacenter [...]

By: Microsoft’s (Cloud) container « JANWIERSMA.COM

Microsoft’s (Cloud) container « JANWIERSMA.COM — Tue, 11 May 2010 08:53:01 +0000

[...] De ontwikkeling van deze ITPAC’s is onderdeel van het generatie 4 concept rond datacentra van Microsoft. Hier is bijvoorbeeld het Chicago datacenter een onderdeel van. In dit datacenter worden nog containers gebruikt van o.a. Dell. Met de bouw van de eigen ITPAC’s hoopt Microsoft o.a. het energie en water verbruik nog verder te reduceren. [...]

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 13 Mar 2010 09:55:20 +0000

The best reason to have walls and a roof is so that your competitors satellites can’t see what you’re doing. It can be sheet metal though, shouldn’t cost more than a million dollars for a Chicago sized facility.

If the roof has chimneys in it directly over the containers, even better. Just vent the hot isle straight up and draw from both sides of the container

By: Cliff W. Baldwin

Cliff W. Baldwin — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 14:53:25 +0000

Is 8 months really long enough to test whether humidity does or doesn’t hurt the servers in their open air design? The containers are nice in that they allow a lot of flexibility in their operations. We go Rack for Rack, and they go container by container, my racks are safer, theres are bigger. . .

By: triatmo doriyanto

triatmo doriyanto — Fri, 12 Mar 2010 01:03:04 +0000

Progressive approach. But, need to know further about the operational and maintenance costs…

By: B

Fri, 12 Mar 2010 00:11:04 +0000

Wish we could do the same thing……

By: Bob L

Bob L — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:24:14 +0000

Sweet. Thats what I want on a smaller scale. Pick pre-build blocks. Rent or build a simple warehouse……