I am in LA for Microsoft PDC ‘09. One thing in Day 1 I was happy to see in real was
a Azure
container that was on display in the exhibition floor. These are containers (shipping
container) that have all included in them – Hundreds of Dell Servers, Climate controlled,
Networked, Monitoring and so on. When a container arrives at a new Microsoft Data
Center location, all they need to do is plug in power and network uplink. Everything
else is included in the container box. A typical data center will have hundreds of
these containers
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