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Microsoft Starts Building Iowa Data Center
January 10th, 2011 : John Rath
Microsoft is ready to move ahead with its delayed $200 million data center project in West Des Moines, Iowa. The project was first announced back in the summer of 2008 but halted when Microsoft trimmed capital spending. Read More
The Evolution of Microsoft’s Data Centers
January 6th, 2011 : Rich Miller
A series of new videos from the Microsoft Global Foundation Services team provides an overview of how the company's data center designs have evolved over three projects in two years. Read More
First Look: Microsoft’s Quincy Cloud Farm
January 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
We've put together a photo feature offering a closer look at the modular data center technology being deployed in Microsoft's brand new facility in Quincy, Washington. Check it out! Read More
Microsoft’s High-Tech Modular ‘Tractor Shed’
January 4th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Microsoft has completed construction on its new data center in Quincy, Washington, which features a plug-n-play modular infrastructure that provides extraordinary flexibility in deploying new cloud computing capacity. Read More
Roundup: Dell Deal Boosts Medical Cloud Archiving
December 27th, 2010 : John Rath
Dell will acquire InSiteOne for cloud medical archiving, SUNY moves to the Microsoft education cloud, Red Hat (RHT) reports third quarter results. Read More
Microsoft Picks Virginia for Major Data Center
August 27th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Microsoft has selected a site near Boydton, Virginia for a major new data center project, with plans to invest up to $499 million in the rural community in the southern part of the state. The company plans to build a cutting-edge data center that will serve as the East Coast hub for Microsoft's online services. Read More
Inside Bing’s ‘Battlestar Galactica’ Container
August 11th, 2010 : Rich Miller
Robert Scoble provides a look inside a Microsoft container packed with more than five petabytes of data to support the Bing Maps application. Some serious eye candy here. Read More
Roundup: Windows Azure Appliances
July 19th, 2010 : Rich Miller
One of last week's hot topics in the data center business was Microsoft's announcement of its Windows Azure platform appliance. Here's a review of some of the analysis and commentary. Read More
Roundup: i/o Data Centers, Microsoft, HP, Phoenix NAP
July 13th, 2010 : John Rath
i/o Data Centers appoints Jon Mauck as its new CFO, HP and Microsoft partner on Azure appliance, Phoenix NAp and Datalink to partner on disaster recovery. Read More