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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers » Data Center Knowledge

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Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference in which he handicapped the size of the server platforms for the world’s leading cloud computing providers. Disaster Recovery.

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Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013 » Data Center.

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Over 17,000 people from 77 countries took on Anaheim, California this week as the SIGGRAPH , a premier conference on computer graphics and interactive techniques celebrated its 40th anniversary. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Technology and Hollywood Meet At SIGGRAPH 2013. By: John Rath July 26th, 2013.

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Five Key Trends in DCIM » Data Center Knowledge

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Proof of that was with the kickoff keynotes (Mike Chuba, David Coyle, Donna Scott) where the events were standing room only (and this was not a small conference). For sourcing, they make decisions, and thus own the hardware budgets. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery.

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Top 5 Data Center Stories, Week of July 20 » Data Center Knowledge

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Ballmer: Microsoft has 1 Million Servers - Microsoft now has more than 1 million servers in its data centers, according to CEO Steve Ballmer, who confirmed the number during his keynote address during last week’s Worldwide Partner Conference in which he handicapped the size of the server platforms for the world’s leading cloud computing providers.

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Fusion-io Accelerates Flash Apps With Open Source Contributions.

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At the O’Reilly OSCON 2013 this week in Portland, Oregon, Fusion-io made the announcement that its Atomic Writes API contributed for standardization to the T10 SCSCI Storage Interfaces Technical Committee is now in use in mainstream MySQL databases MariaDB 5.5.31 Fusion-io: Making Apps Faster With Flash Storage. Networking.

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Department of Veterans Affairs Cancels $36 Million Cloud Contract

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As FCW points out, the VA’s Deputy CIO for Architecture, Strategy and Design, Paul Tibbits, told an audience at 1105 Media’s Enterprise Architecture Conference that he questioned the cost-effectiveness of moving to the cloud. Planning for a Cloud-Ready Distributed Storage Infrastructure. Disaster Recovery.

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Best of the Data Center Blogs for July 18 - Data Center Knowledge

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“If you’re like me, you’ve probably lost count of the articles that you’ve read, or conferences you’ve attended, where the big climatic summary has been that data centers must become more efficient—a comment greeted with a nodding of heads that makes the room look like it’s filled with bobble head dolls. Disaster Recovery.