Up Close and Personal With a Windows Azure Server Container
Eric Calouro | Nov 18, 2009 | Comments 1
With the pending launch of Microsoft’s cloud computing platform, Windows Azures, the Washington-based company is making preparations within their data center — but the way the Azure platform is set up is quite unconventional from most data centers, or at least the ones I have been to personally.
What you see imaged is a Windows Azure server container. Each container is capable of holding 1,800 to 2,500 Dell rack servers, and is fully climate controlled. The servers in the containers can be up and running within 24 hours of arrival at the facility, and are stacked two containers high to optimize space.
Azure is expected to be up and running by January of 2010.
[ images courtesy of Neowin ]
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It looks just as i expected. A lot less fancy than the SUN containers. That’s what one calls “brand continuity”. :)