Microsoft's $500 million cloud machine.

[40hz]

Interesting short article w/photos over at the Data Center Knowledge website about the hardware infrastructure that floats Microsoft's cloud.

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[app103]

They might be out to lose all the world's data, instead.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/10/t-mobile-microsoft-lost-all-the-sidekick-backups/

[40hz]

They might be out to lose all the world's data, instead.

http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/archives/2009/10/10/t-mobile-microsoft-lost-all-the-sidekick-backups/

Touché! (And too true...)

(Although it looks like Apple is giving them some competition on that score too.  )

[zridling]

Wow, talk about server sprawl! And the march toward the computer-as-appliance continues the closer it moves to the cloud.

I'd hate to pay the electricity bill.

[40hz]

If they stacked all 56 on top of each other they could build The Tower of Byte-Bull.