Get an Inside Look at Microsoft Datacenters and Hardware

Have you ever wondered what a datacenter looks like?  Maybe you saw a datacenter 5 years ago. I can tell you first hand a lot has changed in datacenter construction and implementation in the last 5 years.

There are a couple of great videos on YouTube that show off a few of the things that Microsoft is doing with cloud computing hardware and datacenters.

This first video is of what is called an ITPAC (IT pre-assembled components). This can be a datacenter in a box or it can be a subset of a larger datacenter. The video is just over 3 minutes long and shows an animated build-out of a datacenter container and even shows how we do some temperature regulation inside the container itself.

 

This second video (about 10 minutes long) provides a quick, but in depth view of the global Microsoft Datacenter network that is the backbone of many Microsoft products and services, including Windows Azure.

 

-Cheers!

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  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2013
    Looks like the links are down.. "Sorry, there was a problem with your last request! Either the site is offline or an unhandled error occurred. We apologize and have logged the error. Please try your request again or if you know who your site administrator is let them know too."

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2013
    Thank you!    I have corrected it. -Chris

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2013
    Great .. !!