Microsoft Corp. today announced that Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer has decided to retire as CEO within the next 12 months, after a special committee of the company's board names a new CEO.
Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week's Worldwide Partner Conference.
At its annual Worldwide Partner Conference (WPC), Microsoft (MSFT) is focusing all attention on its transformation to a devices and services company, the partner benefits from trends of cloud, mobility, big data and social media.
Microsoft plans to expand its cloud infrastructure in Iowa with a new $677 million data center. The project, known locally by the codename "Project Mountain," builds upon Microsoft's existing data center campus in West Des Moines.
Microsoft announced that Windows Azure now offers per-minute billing for virtual machines, a move that can improve cloud economics by allowing customers to manage costs on a more granular level than Amazon Web Services, which charges by the hour.
With this week's unveiling of the new Xbox One gaming system, Microsoft says it will beef up its Xbox Live platform with 300,000 servers, a huge jump from the 15,000 servers currently supporting the platform.
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...
