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...
Chinese ISP 21Vianet has started construction of a new data center in Beijing that will house 5,000 cabinets. The facility will power Microsoft's premier commercial cloud services in China, including Windows Azure.
Recent changes in web-scale data center design can be seen in the evolution of the Internet infrastructure at Microsoft, which has been the leading proponent of deploying servers on pre-fabricated modules rather than traditional data halls. We've...
Microsoft has provided a first public glimpse of its new data center design,which features pre-fabricated modules housing thousands of servers, including some that sit outdoors.