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Title: Inside Windows Azure's data center, one of world's largest Post by: Alex on November 03, 2009, 12:46:44 PM Inside Windows Azure's data center, one of world's largest
CNet was able to get an exclusive look inside one of the largest data centers in the world, owned by Microsoft to help power cloud-computing with Windows Azure. The secret location of the data center, located somewhere in Chicago, is not your ordinary data center setup, they're in shipping containers. The new data centers are brought in by shipping containers, housing anywhere between 1,800 and 2,500 servers each. Once the shipping containers arrive, the team can install each of the server groups in under a day, where it would normally take months to setup and install servers. The servers remain inside the shipping containers inside the facility, where they are placed side by side and stacked two high. Read full story... http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/neowin-main/~3/Y9cZ2j383EQ/inside-windows-azures-data-center-one-of-worlds-largest |