Microsoft’s Virtual Storage Centre

With the release of Microsoft Azure and all the talk around cloud services, you start to wonder where this mass amount of data is going to be stored? is it really in the cloud?

The BBC recently reported on one of Microsoft’s Virtual Storage Centres. Check out the video here. The centre houses hundreds of of servers dedicated to storing data, the virtual centre can store up to 6 trillion photos!

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• Anonymous
  November 20, 2008
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