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Microsoft: The Cloud is the ‘Utility of the Future’
May 26th, 2011 : Rich Miller
"Cloud computing is the utility of the future," says Microsoft's Christian Belady, who says the company's data center designs will evolve to embrace new opportunities for scale and efficiency. Read More
Roundup: Microsoft, Wyse, Radware
May 19th, 2011 : John Rath
Radware ADC qualifies for Exchange Server 2010, San Francisco selects Microsoft e-mail cloud, Wyse enhances Windows thin clients. Read More
Digging Deeper Into Microsoft’s Server Designs
May 3rd, 2011 : Rich Miller
Here's a look at additional details about Microsoft's infrastructure in two presentations that provide a deeper dive into the company's strategy for optimizing its servers and data centers. Read More
Roundup: Virtela Cloud, ASUS, AMD, Riverbed
April 26th, 2011 : John Rath
Virtela launches cloud-based mobile device management service, ASUS releases new server, AMD adds ExpressLogic to G-Series, Riverbed (RVBD) optimizes Microsoft RemoteFX. Read More
Microsoft Reveals its Specialty Servers, Racks
April 25th, 2011 : Rich Miller
As it seeks to slash power usage across its global cloud computing platform, Microsoft has been refining its in-house designs for energy-efficient data center hardware. The company is now sharing the details of those designs, which feature custom server designs, a high-efficiency power distribution system and in-rack UPS units. Read More
Microsoft Data Center GM Timmons Heads to Apple
April 14th, 2011 : Rich Miller
Kevin Timmons, who helped build the data centers that power Microsoft's global cloud computing operation, has left the company and is expected to take a leadership position at Apple. The move strongly hints that Apple is stepping up its plans for an expansion of its data center infrastructure beyond its huge new facility in North Carolina. Read More
Roundup: Nimsoft, Microsoft, RightScale
March 24th, 2011 : John Rath
RightScale partners with Tata on InstaCompute, customer wins for Nimsoft, Microsoft introduces System Center 2012. Read More
How Big is the Data Center Construction Market?
March 16th, 2011 : Rich Miller
How big is the market for data center construction? How much is it going to grow? Industry veteran Christian Belady of Microsoft has done an analysis, and projects that annual global spending on data center construction will increase from about $50 billion today to about $78 billion by 2020. Read More
Microsoft Roundup: SGI, IE9, AMD and Oracle
March 16th, 2011 : John Rath
SGI drives record scalability for Windows Server 2008, AMD accelerates Internet Explorer 9, Oracle (ORCL) targets Microsoft SQL Server. Read More