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All about Microsoft: Microsoft advances its Win Live Wave 3, Gen4 datacenter rollouts
The Microsoft Blog: Microsoft to build data centers more quickly
GigaOM Network: Microsoft Reveals Fourth-Gen Datacenter Design [GigaOM]
Geek In Disguise: Microsoft: Making Data Centers Like Lego
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog: The trailer park is the computer
Microsoft advances its Win Live Wave 3, Gen4 datacenter rollouts
All about Microsoft —
... centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers and apply it across the entire facility, which will be composed of modular ‘building blocks’ of prefabricated mechanical, electrical and security components, in addition to containerized servers. These facilities can be built incrementally as capacity grows and deployed in only 3 to 6 months, reducing capital costs by 20 – 40 percent.” (A December 2 blog post by Global Foundation Services General Manager Mike Manos explains the Gen4 strategy and plan in greater depth .) Microsoft is planning to build at least ...
Microsoft to build data centers more quickly
The Microsoft Blog —
... that Microsoft was set to build 20 supersize data centers costing more than $1 billion each). On Tuesday, Microsoft hailed a breakthrough, saying it had developed a new plan to reduce the time and cost needed to build a data center. "We believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years," wrote Mike Manos, Microsoft's general manager for data center services on his blog . From the post, which refers to the plan as "Gen 4": ... We are striving to bring Henry Ford's Model T factory to the data center. Gen 4 will move data ...
Microsoft Reveals Fourth-Gen Datacenter Design [GigaOM]
GigaOM Network —
... Microsoft Data Center Chief Mike Manos posted a blog entry yesterday on the company’s vision for next generation data centers. The blog post ( ...
Microsoft: Making Data Centers Like Lego
Geek In Disguise —
... Fun aside, the Generation 4 data centers that are depicted here and talked about at length on Mike Manos’s blog are a big deal. They take many of the conventional concepts regarding data centers and throw them out of the window. Raised floors are a thing of the past and even the new Microsoft data centers in Chicago is Generation 3 – being partly containerised. ...
The trailer park is the computer
Rough Type: Nicholas Carr's Blog —
... of Busch Light.) In an extensive blog post , Microsoft's top data-center guy, Michael Manos, lays out the details of what the company calls its "Gen 4" centers, which will become the cornerstones of its "hyper-scale cloud infrastructure" for at least the next five years. He writes: If we were to summarize the promise of our Gen 4 design into a single sentence it would be something like this: “A highly modular, scalable, efficient, just-in-time data center capacity program that can be delivered anywhere in the world very quickly and cheaply, while allowing for continued growth ...
Google lets server farm fields go fallow
GMSV —
... in Pryor, Oklahoma, and a quarter in which the company put the brakes on capital expenditures as executives talked about doing more with less. Meanwhile, in other data center news (don’t get to write that very often), Microsoft has unveiled its vision of future facilities to support its cloud computing ambitions, and that future is modular and topless. As ...
Microsoft & Google: Datacenters on Different Paths
Geek In Disguise —
Last week Mike Manos posted a blog entry and video on Generation 4 datacenters from Microsoft. This short TechNet EDGE video with Christian Belady and David Gauthier goes in to some more detail on these revolutionary datacenters. They talk through some obvious questions like what happens when it snows if you have a datacenter without a roof (just one of the features of our Gen 4 DC’s). At the same time the guys have started their own datacenter blog where the explain in detail the notion of Gen 4 ...
Microsoft’s datacenter software and services future: Trebuchet and Monsoon
All about Microsoft —
... Microsoft officials recently peeled back the covers a bit on its datacenter futures by sharing some high-level strategy goals for its “Generation 4″ modular datacenter plans . But this modularization is only one piece of the company’s longer-term goals and plans for its cloud-computing infrastructure. There is a bigger, cross-lab datacenter project in the works at the company. Codenamed “Trebuchet. Trebuchet is all about Microsoft’s next-generation datacenter software and services, and addresses everything from the platform software down to the consumer-facing services that ...
Google Claims Data Center Energy Savings
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... that its data center in Santa Clara, Calif., had achieved a PUE of 1.28. Microsoft in December discussed its plans for its Generation 4 Modular Data Center, which the company hopes will deliver an average PUE of 1.125 by 2012. While Google's energy efficiency is widely admired, some see spin in the company's numbers. For instance, Google explains on its data center efficiency ...
More on Microsoft’s Gen 4 data centers
Geek In Disguise —
... I went back and checked Mike’s original post on the topic and sure enough, I see Costello is called out there a number of times regarding Gen 4. ...
Microsoft’s Gen 4 modular data centers
D' Technology Weblog —
... Mike Mano’s post revealed that “Daniel Costello (“the father” of our Generation 4 modular data center vision and the leader of the team of engineers that created it)” ...
In the New Data Center, It's Roofs Off and Taxes Down
Bits —
... have been.” Microsoft has been pursuing the idea of building data centers in a box. It takes shipping containers and packs them full of gear with the hopes of creating a type of computing building block that can save time and money. The company is about to open a data center in Chicago, displaying the most dramatic use of the container idea to date. Microsoft has packed a 500,000-square-foot building with hundreds of the containers. Moving forward, however, Microsoft intends to be more radical . It’s giving up on the actual building and placing containers out in the open. ...
Bits: In the New Data Center, It's Roofs Off and Taxes Down
NYT > Technology —
... have been.” Microsoft has been pursuing the idea of building data centers in a box. It takes shipping containers and packs them full of gear with the hopes of creating a type of computing building block that can save time and money. The company is about to open a data center in Chicago, displaying the most dramatic use of the container idea to date. Microsoft has packed a 500,000-square-foot building with hundreds of the containers. Moving forward, however, Microsoft intends to be more radical . It’s giving up on the actual building and placing containers out in the open. ...
Where'd the Data Center Go?
Know It All —
"A data center without walls" sounds like some sort of do-gooder project, but it's actually the way Microsoft is headed with its modular, containerized computing effort. ...
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