May 8, 2008 : Microsoft Facility to Hold 300K Servers
📅 - The first floor of Microsoft's (microsoft.com) new data center "container farm" in Chicago will be able to pack up to 300,000 servers, said a Microsoft executive at the Microsoft Management Summit last Friday in Las Vegas.
According to reports by Data Center Knowledge on Wednesday, Microsoft will be able to manage "extraordinarily dense server environments" by packing the 40-foot shipping containers with data center equipment.
In her keynote address at the Summit, Debra Chrapaty, Microsoft's corporate VP of Global Foundation Services, told the audience that Microsoft will move from 400 to 450 watts per square foot to 1,200 watts a square foot and showed a lot of enthusiasm about how "really, really cool" containers are.
Although Microsoft doesn't tend to discuss the number of of servers it operates overall, Chrapaty says its infrastructure is growing by 10,000 servers per month. Data Center Knowledge pointed out that, by way of comparison, the extremely popular social networking site Facebook currently has 10,000 servers powering its whole platform. Microsoft is, more or less, adding a Facebook's worth of servers to its network every month.
Despite its already aggressive growth, Chrapaty believes "Microsoft's growth will accelerate to 20,000 servers per month in the next several years," predominantly due to the company's use of customized data center containers, dubbed as "CBlox," which are designed to "handle higher power and server density."
Microsoft first announced its $500 million "container farm" data center in April, when it reported it would be moving 150 to 220 shipping containers filled with data center equipment into the 500,000 square foot facility in Chicago, making it the most significant public use of shipping container systems to date.
The company says it has already readied other centers across the US to be used in a similar fashion, as Microsoft continues to rival the massive facilities expansions of Google.
According to reports by Data Center Knowledge on Wednesday, Microsoft will be able to manage "extraordinarily dense server environments" by packing the 40-foot shipping containers with data center equipment.
In her keynote address at the Summit, Debra Chrapaty, Microsoft's corporate VP of Global Foundation Services, told the audience that Microsoft will move from 400 to 450 watts per square foot to 1,200 watts a square foot and showed a lot of enthusiasm about how "really, really cool" containers are.
Although Microsoft doesn't tend to discuss the number of of servers it operates overall, Chrapaty says its infrastructure is growing by 10,000 servers per month. Data Center Knowledge pointed out that, by way of comparison, the extremely popular social networking site Facebook currently has 10,000 servers powering its whole platform. Microsoft is, more or less, adding a Facebook's worth of servers to its network every month.
Despite its already aggressive growth, Chrapaty believes "Microsoft's growth will accelerate to 20,000 servers per month in the next several years," predominantly due to the company's use of customized data center containers, dubbed as "CBlox," which are designed to "handle higher power and server density."
Microsoft first announced its $500 million "container farm" data center in April, when it reported it would be moving 150 to 220 shipping containers filled with data center equipment into the 500,000 square foot facility in Chicago, making it the most significant public use of shipping container systems to date.
The company says it has already readied other centers across the US to be used in a similar fashion, as Microsoft continues to rival the massive facilities expansions of Google.
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