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...
Microsoft has joined The Open Data Center Alliance (ODCA), an industry group that publishes usage models for Open Specifications for Cloud Computing.
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...
