Microsoft picks up data centre from the back of a lorry
Windows Live may be hosted from Portakabin-style data centre compounds if Microsoft's 4th generation data centre plans come to fruition. Microsoft planners envisage thinly-provisioned data centres built from containerised components delivered to site just in time and plugged into a utility spine for power and communications …
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Another Microsoft innovation!
SUN has been selling containerized data centers for at least a few years, nothing new here
Microsoft...
...are taking no risks here.
Most of their software is of the quality we associate with the phrase "back of a lorry"
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