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Microsoft Unveils Container stacks 224,000 Servers in 112 containers
Oct 2nd
Microsoft will use an approach in which servers arrive at the data center in a sealed container, already networked together and ready to go. The container itself is then hooked up to power, networking, and air conditioning. This container looks just like the Sun container we covered a few months back about a total server solution used by Sun. Only a couple of years ago, Microsoft was adding capacity one server at a time, adding individual servers to racks and taking a couple of hours to wire in each new server.
Microsoft is also used to lease much of its space, until it realized that data centers were going to be a very big part of its future as more and more software moved into the cloud. A couple of years back, though, it found itself running tight on capacity and bought two San Francisco Bay Area data centers in which it had been leasing space.
Via [Gizmodo]
Microsoft’s Ballmer: ’3 screens and the cloud’
Sep 26th
Where is Microsoft going with Zune HD and its vaunted three-screen idea? Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer talked with TechCrunch’s Michael Arrington, where he supported most of our assertions in our latest SHIFT commentary. Thanks for that, Steve. Good timing.
He’s talking about computing from tiny, mid-sized and a very big screens — all of them integrated with online connectivity (the cloud) — and he’s calling Microsoft’s computing-everywhere strategy a “fundamental shift in the computing paradigm.”
Ballmer talks about a variety of ways to interact with these various pacecodes, including touch, voice, cameras, and gestures, and says Microsoft’s goal is “one integrated computing infrastructure.” Surprisingly, he says that huge interconnected system doesn’t even have to all come from Microsoft. So much for the evil empire? We’ll see about that.
On the other hand, if Ballmer’s leveling with us, don’t expect a Microsoft-branded phone or our prediction about Microsoft’s “zPhone” interacting with all those screens to come true anytime soon. He denies Microsoft is in the midst of building its own phone. One thing’s for sure, though: The Zune HD is just the beginning.
Via TechCrunch
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