New data centre
Fort Meade MD.
It's made available through deduping, as that is where the data will end up anyway.
Microsoft's Exchange Online service now comes with bigger mailboxes. Redmond has let it be known that henceforth Exchange Online mailboxes will offer 50 gigabytes of capacity, up from 25. Kiosk mailboxes go from one to two gigabytes. Shared mailboxes and those for Resources now have 10GB to play with, more than twice their …
I been a mail admins for over 13 years, and you know what I have found over that time? Give a user a bigger mailbox and they just store tons of crap, never delete, never manage there mailboxes.
and the best part they go on holiday, come back and moan that they are missing emails between such and such a date because there mailbox was full.
more space just means they never manage the mailbox at all.
No they havn't - Microsoft's cloud storage is a distributed filesystem built across all of it's datacentres (and it's key components use SSDs which is partly why it is faster than rivals like Amazon). See http://sigops.org/sosp/sosp11/current/2011-Cascais/11-calder-online.pdf
Windows Server now supports thin provisioning and data deduplication natively which if leveraged in the cloud filesystem, likely significantly lowers the cost of such a solution....