The cloud market in China is wide open. Microsoft is launching Azure public cloud there through partner 21Vianet, in a big move to gain some traction in a market with huge potential.
The Windows Azure Cloud is expanding its footprint in the Asia-Pacific Region. Microsoft is building a new data center in Singapore, with a facility expected online in 2014, the company has confirmed. Microsoft also announced two new data center...
The Microsoft data center campus in Quincy, Washington illustrates the evolution of data center design from huge concrete shells to compact modules sitting outdoors on a slab. Data centers have become glamorous, but the Quincy campus is at the...
Microsoft is looking deeply into energy efficiency and insists that that its gaze must encompass the entire system - not just on a the level of the data center, but scrutinizing what it takes to create a unit of content.
NBC Sports Group will be using Microsoft's Windows Azure Media Services across NBC Sports' digital platforms, bringing online audiences' coverage of such sporting events as the 2014 Olympics and Sunday Night Football.
Our photo feature, Inside Microsoft’s European Cloud Hub, examines how Microsoft has optimized its data center design to make efficient use of fresh air, and follows the path of the air through the giant facility.
Squeezing more efficiency and density out of bleeding-edge facilities is the next phase in the data center arms race. An example: Microsoft continues to refine the design of new data halls in its Dublin data center.
The Hotmail servers got entirely too hot Tuesday, causing a major outage for Microsoft's web-based email services. Both Hotmail and Outlook.com were offline for up to 16 hours after a failed software update caused the heat to spike in one part of...
Sometimes a relatively small amount of software code can make a huge difference in how much you spend on hardware. That's the case at Microsoft, which has been able to reduce the number of diesel backup generators at its data centers by using...