Microsoft announced it’s Azure cloud computing platform earlier this week,and along with it, Microsoft has engaged DELL server and storage services to build thus backend Datacenters for Microsoft to host Azure.
To build the Azure data center, Microsoft has engaged Dell’s Data Center Solutions division, an independent unit of the company — which has its own research, design, manufacturing, marketing, and sales employees — that was expressly created in the spring of 2006 to chase the cloud computing-Web 2.0-utility computing opportunity. DCS makes custom servers tuned for specific workloads and data center power and cooling envelopes.
The machines are undoubtedly based on x64 processors, although it would be hilarious if Windows Azure was running on Itanium iron (which is technically possible but logically stupid, especially since Dell doesn’t really like Itanium and Microsoft only does because it helps kill RISC/Unix a little).
The scale at which Microsoft is building out their cloud and the infrastructure to support Windows Azure absolutely warranted really optimized solutions," explained Norrod. "We think they chose us because we gave them the solution that was power-optimized, performance-optimized, easy to deploy and scale to fulfill their needs and support it around the world.
Here is a video of DELL explaining this announcement
I wonder, how Microsoft will be able to pursue users to trust putting off their data to Microsoft servers for providing services.
What do you think? Is Microsoft trustworthy enough?
“I wonder, how Microsoft will be able to pursue users to trust putting off their data to Microsoft servers for providing services.”
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