Microsoft’s Datacenter Vision

Last week there was a lot of discussion about some of the thinking about a future generation of data centers which become a lot more flexible, cost effective and quick to install and get on-line in the right locations. You can click on the video to see the simulation of what is being planned.

Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision

 

This was also backed up by Mike Manos' blog post that talked about Microsoft’s new generation of datacenters

 

So you saw the video and I guess you have a lot of questions. Adam from Edge asked those questions for you to Christian Belady and David Gauthier who are datacenter architects, but maybe you still have some.

  • So if there is no roof, what happens if it snows
  • What happened when a machine fails
  • How is the datacenter secure if it not in a building?

Click below to take a look?

datacenter 4.0