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Microsoft Mulling Portable Data Centers

Posted by Zonk on from the call-me-when-they-make-them-luggable dept.

1sockchuck writes "An architect of the Windows Live team has published a presentation advocating portable container-based data centers as the future of data center infrastructure. James Hamilton, who previously was GM of Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services, contends that a distributed network of unmanned modular units 'transforms data centers from static and costly behemoths into inexpensive and portable lightweights. ... Multiple smaller data centers, regionally located, could prove to be a competitive advantage.' Both Sun and Rackable have rolled out prototypes of container-based 'data center in a box' products, and Hamilton notes that large generators are also available in trailers."

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  1. not feasible by seriousblack · · Score: -1, Troll

    "Data center in a box" is a misnomer. At some point it becomes too inefficient to make the thing portable, resulting in serious problems.

  2. Re:What about maintenance and fixes? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You're a dumbass. When Google was talking about this (or when Cringley suggested Google was talking about this) people thought it was the coolest. Now, usual morons like you who look critically at everything Microsoft does are resorting to any stupid argument you can find to tear MSFT down a notch.

    Give it up. You're a fucking loser if you hate a company that much. Period.

  3. Re:whoa, slow down there! by adamruck · · Score: 0, Troll

    Honestly, I would imagine that portal music players are a hell of lot harder to get "right", than portable data centers.

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  4. Re:Borg by celkin · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah right. I love the internet because you don't have to tell the truth. You just have to be convincing, at least to the other Linux fanboys. And just for the heck of it, I'm NOT a seventeen-year-old high school student sitting at my WinBook in my grandparents' house procrasting from doing my Calculus homework. I'm actually a 43-year-old female brain-surgeon-slash-astronaut, and I drive an iCar. It's nice because it has a sleek white exterior, docks seamlessly with my iPod, and I can buy gas from iTunes for 99 cents per gallon, but there's only one pedal. If I want to break, I have to hold the control key on the steering wheel while I step on the gas. Luckily iCars never crash.

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  5. Microsoft plays catchup to Google yet again by Master+of+Transhuman · · Score: 0, Troll


    "Gee, they're SO innovative at Microsoft"!

    Morons.

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