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Presenting our Datacentre Strategy at Tech-Ed EMEA

Posted Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:41 PM by msdcblog
Just a short post to let you know that I’ll be in Berlin for Tech-Ed EMEA from November 9 - 13 and I hope to see some of you there. I’ll be providing deeper insight into our new Dublin and Chicago datacentres, including our approaches to delivering on Read More...
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Rolling out the Green Carpet for Dublin’s Neighbors

Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 8:01 AM by msdcblog
A few weeks back we had the privilege of hosting a data centre visit and tour for the residential neighbours of the Dublin data centre. Given the long projected lifespan of our new facility, we’re going to be neighbours for a long time, and so we felt Read More...
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How Microsoft is Securing the Cloud Infrastructure and Our Data Centers, Part 2

Posted Monday, June 08, 2009 10:57 PM by msdcblog
The release last week of our white paper on Securing Microsoft’s Cloud Infrastructure generated a lot of discussion in the industry, which was our intent. We wrote the paper in part to communicate our practices to customers concerned about security in Read More...
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How Microsoft is Securing the Cloud Infrastructure and Our Data Centers

Posted Thursday, May 28, 2009 9:45 PM by msdcblog
Companies considering moving their IT operations to the cloud are understandably concerned about security, privacy, reliability, and operational controls. To address these concerns and help share best practices with the rest of the industry, the Online Read More...
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Designing Generation 4.0 Data Centers: The Engineers’ Approach to Solving Business Challenges…continued

Posted Monday, May 04, 2009 8:01 AM by msdcblog
Part # 2 (A couple of years ago, when our Data Center Services’ Research & Engineering team within Microsoft’s Global Foundation Services (GFS) group kicked off the Generation 4.0 Data Center design project, we began with the question of: What are Read More...
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Microsoft’s Top 10 Business Practices for Environmentally Sustainable Data Centers (celebrating Earth Day)

Posted Tuesday, April 21, 2009 8:00 AM by msdcblog
How to Reduce Energy Consumption, Waste, and Costs while Increasing Efficiency and ROI What does environmental sustainability mean to data centers, industry operators, and IT businesses? A lot of managers in these areas may barely notice the Earth Day Read More...
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Building a Better Mousetrap a.k.a. Optimizing for Maximum Efficiency in an Economic Downturn

Posted Friday, January 23, 2009 3:31 PM by msdcblog
By Arne Josefsberg and Mike Manos, January 23, 2009 As you might have read in Microsoft’s Q2 FY09 earnings release yesterday, the company has announced cost management initiatives due to the global economic downturn. And with the earnings release back Read More...
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Microsoft's Generation 4 Data Center Vision - the Architects' Perspective

Posted Monday, December 08, 2008 6:44 AM by msdcblog
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 Read More...
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DataCenter Think Tanks Sheepish on Weightloss

Posted Friday, August 15, 2008 4:15 PM by msdcblog
Matt Stansbury over at Data Center Facilities Pro posted an interesting post regarding a panel containing Uptime’s Ken Brill. The note warns folks on the use of PUE as a benchmarking standard between data centers. I can’t say I really disagree with what he says. In my mind, self measurement is always an intensely personal thing. Read More...
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Struggling with CADE, McKinsey / Uptime Metric (RE-POST)

Posted Friday, July 18, 2008 4:05 PM by msdcblog
I guess I should start out this post with the pre-emptive statement that as a key performance indicator I support the use of CADE or metrics that tie both facilities and IT into a single metric. In fact we have used a similar metric internally at Microsoft. But the fact is at the end of the day I believe that any such metrics must be useful and actionable. Read More...
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Do Not Tighten Bolts

Posted Wednesday, July 16, 2008 4:51 PM by msdcblog
I have a pretty incredible job. My current role has me leading Microsoft’s efforts at designing, constructing, and operating its world-wide Data Center infrastructure in support of our cloud services initiatives, or more correctly “Software + Services”. There aren’t many people around tasked with this kind of challenge, in fact the number of companies attempting this challenge can be counted on one or two hands. Read More...
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