Microsoft sees portable datacenters everywhere
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Portable datacenters will be key to supporting the surging demand for online services, but equipment vendors need to start designing products especially for them, a Microsoft engineer said Wednesday.
Microsoft has already shown its enthusiasm for portable datacenters, which cram hundreds of servers into a standard 20-foot (6.1 meter) shipping container that can be delivered wherever it's needed, so long as there is a power supply and network connection.
The company has said it will put more than 200 of them on the first floor of a datacenter it's building in Chicago, and it is already operating at least one of its online services, Virtual Earth, from a portable datacenter in Colorado.