Christian Belady (Our Principal Power and Cooling Architect) and David Gauthier (One of our Data Center Engineering teams) put a post up answering some of the many questions we have been getting around our Generation 4 Approach. Its some good additional primer information and addresses some of the recurring themes we are getting in mail....

Microsoft's Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects' Perspective By David Gauthier, Data Center Infrastructure Architect and Christian Belady, Principal Power and Cooling Architect, Microsoft Corp. On Tuesday, December 2, our Global Foundation...

Data Centers are a hot topic these days. No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention. For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight......