Microsoft's Datacenter Strategy
Like Google, Microsoft is building out its datacenters and
datacenter infrastructure at a rapid pace.
While Microsoft does share some information about what’s
inside these datacenters, the company rarely provides an
overview of its grand datacenter plan.
Mary Jo Foley was able to get a slide (from November
2009), which shows where Microsoft has built and is building
its Microsoft Online datacenters across the globe.
Microsoft was evaluating whether to put a primary
datacenter in Brazil for the South American market, backed
up by a North American datacenter.
According to this slide, Microsoft will be adding support
for customers in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic,
Greece, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico,
Romania, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan in the coming
months.
Update: A statement from Kevin Timmons, general manager of
Datacenter Operations:
“This is an outdated ‘vision’ slide which does not
accurately reflect our existing or future datacenter plans.
Datacenters represent a long-term business approach to meet
future cloud services demands of customers.
We have to consider multiple proposals from across our business groups to ensure we are making thoughtful, measured investments that are in line with our long-term business approach to meet future demand by pre-investing in a way that allows us to support future capacity incrementally in a cost-efficient manner.”
Source: All About Microsoft