Microsoft's New Cloud Computing

Forbes.com (Oct 29 2009) Construction , Cloud Computing

1. In a suburb outside Chicago, Microsoft has been showing off its latest data center. The 707,000-square-foot building will hold, at top strength, 162 sealed cargo containers of up to 2,500 computer servers each, plus thousands more servers in conventional racks. The cost: $500 million. But though Microsoft's Windows 7 operating system is capturing all the attention these days, this bland building might be a place to see the company's future. All the computers will run on a single operating system called Azure that, eventually, will let big companies run applications like e-mail and house data at this and other Microsoft ( MSFT - news - people ) centers. (Read Full Article)

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