Compute
A Rare Tour Of Microsoft’s Hyperscale Datacenters
If you want to study how datacenter design has changed over the past two decades, a good place to visit is Quincy, Washington. …
Datacenter
Compute
Concept Data Tower Scrapes The Sky For Efficiency
We talk about architecture all the time when discussing systems, but when it comes to the datacenters that house these machines, the shells are about as exciting as a monstrous warehouse for a massive distribution operation. …
Cloud
How This Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs By A Quarter
In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant’s datacenters. …