Data centers on wheels

December 4th, 2008 | by emontero |

After we all heard Google’s incredible plans to take its data centers offshore, many speculated it was only a matter of time before Amazon, Microsoft and IBM (the big cloud players — cloud-ies?) came up with their own futuristic plans in order to reduce the tremendous costs that operating massive data centers entail. Well, here’s Microsoft’s take (video after the jump):

<br/><a href="http://video.msn.com/video.aspx?vid=b4d189d3-19bd-42b3-85d7-6ca46d97fe40" target="_new" title="Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision">Video: Microsoft Generation 4.0 Data Center Vision</a>

Is that cool or what? I’d be thrilled to see MSN Live on the road. I’d totally honk my support!

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  1. One Response to “Data centers on wheels”

  2. By xmonk on Dec 9, 2008 | Reply

    I’ll go with what.

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