Thursday 11 March 2010
After slowing construction for several months, the heart and soul of Microsoft’s ‘cloud computing’ initiative is moving again. owever, if the company really wants to win the battle for cloud computing dominance as the concept catches on, Microsoft executives knew they had to ante up to build mega datacenters — bad economy or not. Microsoft will open a new 300,000 square foot datacenter in Dublin, Ireland — its first mega datacenter outside the U.S. — and the company plans to open its mammoth, 700,000 square foot Chicago datacenter on July 20, according to a blog post by Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services organization within Global Foundation Services.
The two most recent datacenters that Microsoft opened were a 477,000 square foot facility in San Antonio, Texas in September of last year, and a 500,000 square foot datacenter in Quincy, Wash. which opened in April 2007. Additionally, the datacenters will also support Ozzie’s Azure cloud application platform. In its two newest datacenters, Microsoft is trying to use the latest technology to contain costs for both equipment and electricity.
Containers conserve energy and will help us realize new advancements in power efficiency … These prepackaged units (with up to 1,800 to 2,500 servers each) can be wheeled into the facility and made operational within hours, so they represent important advances in the ability to quickly and efficiently provision capacity. The density inside the containers can exceed 10 times that of traditional data centers.
SpamTitan, a leading producer of email security solutions, today announces its exciting new cloud computing initiative with VMware to deliver on-demand email security virtual appliances in the cloud. This makes good business sense as Anti-Spam filtering has fast become a commodity application, and commodity applications are logical expenses to outsource versus managing within ones own IT infrastructure. Businesses small and large are embracing cloud computing for inbound email filtering such as handling Anti-Spam and Anti-Virus cleansing of high volumes of incoming mail.
It ensures customers have the opportunity to use email security and anti-spam solutions in the cloud, not in the SaaS model but as their own dedicated on demand application — benefiting from the redundancy, scalability and failover associated with virtualization and cloud computing.” SpamTitan’s unique approach in utilizing next-generation virtualization software eliminates the need for unwieldy hardware, giving customers unparalleled flexibility, versatility and capability but at an affordable price. Integrating best of breed technologies, SpamTitan provides an easy to install, easy to manage and highly secure email gateway. SpamTitan, a division of CopperFasten, is a global company with headquarters in Galway, Ireland. For further information visit, www.spamtitan.com.
SpamTitan for VMware is a complete operating system and virtual email security software suite designed to run on VMware that enables businesses to run SpamTitan on any server irrespective of the operating system. Users can simply click a link to automatically generate a SpamTitan virtual appliance in the cloud as well as having log on access to explore their own SpamTitan application.
Microsoft will open a new 300,000 square foot datacenter in Dublin, Ireland — its first mega datacenter outside the U.S. — and the company plans to open its mammoth, 700,000 square foot Chicago datacenter on July 20, according to a blog post by Arne Josefsberg, general manager of Microsoft’s Infrastructure Services organization within Global Foundation Services. owever, if the company really wants to win the battle for cloud computing dominance as the concept catches on, Microsoft executives knew they had to ante up to build mega datacenters — bad economy or not.
The two most recent datacenters that Microsoft opened were a 477,000 square foot facility in San Antonio, Texas in September of last year, and a 500,000 square foot datacenter in Quincy, Wash. which opened in April 2007. Ozzie and other top Microsoft executives have identified cloud computing as crucial to the company’s long-term survival. In its two newest datacenters, Microsoft is trying to use the latest technology to contain costs for both equipment and electricity.
Additionally, the datacenters will also support Ozzie’s Azure cloud application platform. These prepackaged units (with up to 1,800 to 2,500 servers each) can be wheeled into the facility and made operational within hours, so they represent important advances in the ability to quickly and efficiently provision capacity
