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Microsoft Unveils Its Container-Powered Cloud

Microsoft opened the doors of its $500 million Chicago data center, providing a look inside the 700,000 square foot facility, whose container-driven design allows the company to deploy 2,000 servers in a matter of hours. As the bay door opens at Microsoft's enormous new Chicago data center, the future backs in on a trailer. Forty-foot long containers packed with servers are unloaded with winches,

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Microsoft's Low-Power Server Prototype

Microsoft's new Cloud Computing Futures group is testing a small cloud computing server farm using low-power Intel Atom processors originally designed for use in netbooks and mobile applications. How low can your server power go? Microsoft is investigating that question in a project by its new Cloud Computing Futures (CCF) research unit, which aims to reduce data center costs by "four-fold or grea