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 Send to email | Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push in General |  By Rough Ty
el 02-Mar-2008 | I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard, will be an aggressive acceleration of the company's investment in its data center network. The construction program will be "totally over the top," said a person briefed on the plan. The first phase of the buildout, said...
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| Rumor: Microsoft set for vast data-center push | | I've received a few more hints about the big cloud-computing initiative Microsoft may be about to announce, perhaps during the company's Mix08 conference in Las Vegas this coming week. One of the cornerstones of the strategy, I've heard, will be an aggressive acceleration of the company's investment in its data center network. The construction program will be "totally over the top," said a person [..] Read complete article | | Published 02-Mar-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Build a 14.5 watt data center in a shoebox | | All it takes is a buffalo and some courage
Those supercomputing guys love to build their massive data centers full of hardware and high-end cooling systems. These data smelters consume vast amounts of energy and take up a ton of space. But they make you feel like a real man or at least a real geek, [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Apr-2008 by Nerdblog in General
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| New horizons in data centers | | Recent months have brought a burst of innovation in data centers. We have seen data centers in semitrailers, data centers in caves, data centers in Siberia, data centers in the Las Vegas desert, and data centers that float in the middle of the ocean. Today we have word, via Data Center Knowledge, that Microsoft has been testing data centers in tents. (They're calling it In Tents Computing.) What's [..] Read complete article | | Published 22-Sep-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Double-wide? How about 220-wide? | | Grab a ratty lawnchair and put a case of Busch cans in the cooler because the data center has now officially become the trailer park. Poindexter, meet Jethro. Both Sun and Rackable introduced supercomputers-in-shipping-containers some time ago, but it's a move by Microsoft that pushes the trend into the mainstream. In its mammoth new data center in Chicago, reports Rich Miller, "Microsoft will for [..] Read complete article | | Published 01-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| HP rolls up EDS | | Oracle has enjoyed considerable success by rolling up the software side of the the now-mature client-server model of corporate computing. With its $13.9 billion acquisition of sluggish outsourcing giant EDS, Hewlett-Packard is playing the same game on the services side. It's buying vast tracts of data-center space in which run the computers and other IT machinery that power the operations of lots [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Silicon Death Valley | | The Register's Ashlee Vance wriggles through a Las Vegas Mantrap to get the goods on the SuperNAP, a vast, superpowered data center being constructed in the Nevada desert by a shadowy hosting firm called Switch Communications. Writes Vance: This 407,000 square foot computing compound will house servers and storage systems owned by many of the world's most prominent companies. And, unlike most cent [..] Read complete article | | Published 25-May-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Google unlocks its data centers | | The clouds open and . . . the face of Google appears. As long anticipated, Google is now allowing outside developers to write applications that will run on its vast network of data centers. The company's App Engine, now in a closed beta, provides a new cloud-based development platform that will compete with, and perhaps complement, the platforms run by Amazon Web Services, Salesforce.com, and othe [..] Read complete article | | Published 08-Apr-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Microsoft launches Windows Azure, its "cloud OS" | | Having spent billions constructing a data center network over the last couple of years, Microsoft this morning launched, in limited "preview" form, Windows Azure, its platform for cloud computing. The announcement was made by Microsoft's top software executive, Ray Ozzie, in a speech at the company's Professional Developers Conference in Los Angeles. Microsoft will use the Azure platform to run it [..] Read complete article | | Published 27-Oct-2008 by Rough Ty in General
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| Additional details about Verizon?s Mandatory Data Plans emerge |  Remember that rumor floating around about Verizon requiring a $29.99 data plan for all new smartphones? It was based upon a leaked screenshot of a small section of a two-page slide deck that detailed the new smartphone data requirement. Well, we got our hands on the original two-page document and now have all the nitty [...] [..] Read complete article | | Published 13-Nov-2008 by Kelly Hodgkins in ExclusivesVerizondatadata blockmandatoryPAYGSmartphoneWireless
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That's funny - we could have sworn it was August, not April. It was four months ago, after all, that we reported on Microsoft Game Studios' hiring push for director Peter Jackson's mysterious [..] 
