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Rightsizing Servers to Achieve Cost and Power Savings in the Datacenter

Posted Tuesday, December 15, 2009 7:07 AM by msdcblog
By Dileep Bhandarkar, Ph. D. Distinguished Engineer Global Foundation Services, Microsoft I speak about server rightsizing from time to time at technology conferences, and am surprised that the basic concepts are new to some people in the industry. A Read More...
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The Polarization of the Data Center Industry (at least for now): Part 2 of 2

Posted Monday, December 07, 2009 8:21 PM by msdcblog
The Inflection Point for Efficiency in the Data Center By Christian Belady, Principal Infrastructure Architect Global Foundation Services, Microsoft Corporation The Gartner graph (included in Part 1 of this blog) also made me think about the fact-- that Read More...
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The Polarization of the Data Center Industry (at least for now): Part 1 of 2

Posted Monday, December 07, 2009 8:01 PM by msdcblog
By Christian Belady, Principal Infrastructure Architect Global Foundation Services, Microsoft Corporation I read a lot about what others are doing in the industry, and a recent post by Rich Miller of Data Center Knowledge caught my attention. It was titled Read More...
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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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Farmers, so long…

Posted Monday, April 13, 2009 6:56 PM by msdcblog
This post represents a bittersweet moment in my career. As you have no doubt heard I am moving on from Microsoft to take on an exciting senior role at Digital Realty Trust. I will save the specifics on my new role and its mission for a future post on Read More...
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