Microsoft Unveils Its Container-Powered Cloud

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1. “ We think of the containers as a revolutionary approach to computing at scale. ”

   By Arne Josefsberg

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• Microsoft
• Data Center Knowledge
• Kevin Timmons

1. A look at one of the double-decker data center containers housed at the massive new Microsoft data center near Chicago. The facility includes both raised-floor space and plug-n-play bays for containers packed with servers. As the bay door opens at Microsoft’s enormous new Chicago data center, the future backs in on a trailer. Forty-foot long containers packed with servers are unloaded with winches, and stacked two-high onto “air skates” that float on compressed air. Using the air skates, as few as four employees can move the 60-ton stack into place in Microsoft’s “container canyon” in the lower floor ... (Read Full Article)
   
   

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