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A Data Center Built With Shipping Containers

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Apr 2nd @ 4:06 PM
Yesterday, Microsoft became the first in the industry to announce a data center designed entirely with shipping container-based server modules.  It's a sizable data center, supporting somewhere between 150,000 an 440,000 servers.  Mike Manos revealed some specifics about the Chicago data center at a talk at Data Center World.

James Hamilton has some commentary on his blog.  James has been evangelizing the advantages of shipping container-based data centers for years, inside the company and within the industry.  As he points out, several of the largest equioment companies are now providing containers, and you can be sure that we are not the only company buying them.  But this is the first time anyone has talked publicly about a real industry-scale data center designed from the ground up for containers.  I'm particularly interested by the fact that the containers use angle parking instead of being arranged at right angles.

This is a big accomplishment, and no doubt a sign of where the rest of the industry will be moving in coming years.  Congratulations to Mike, James, and the rest of the team!
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Fresh WPF Boot Camp at MIX University

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Mar 24th @ 7:57 PM
Karsten just posted 3 more days of intense WPF Boot Camp training at MIX University.  This is our most updated training, delivered recently here in Redmond by several experts from Microsoft and our partners.  It takes you from beginner to intermediate in the first two days, and then dives deep into some real-world implementations on day 3.

The viewer is written using Silverlight 2, and you can get the source code for the viewer app over at Karsten's blog.
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On the Road again....

Blog.PostedBy: Denise Begley | Mar 21st @ 4:57 PM

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It was a tough choice on the night of Thursday, March 6, 2008. I was in the garage of the Venetian Hotel with Greg Visscher and my team mates Laurence Moroney and Arthur Yasinski and a tour bus (rumored to have been used by the band STYX). Could I stow away and travel for 45 days for a Code Trip adventure with seven Microsoft evangelists traveling the West promoting Microsoft technologies?  It was tempting, especially as the tour goes through some of the cities I have lived in.  (I am pointing to Missoula in the picture where I lived while studying at the University of Montana).  With one more day of MIX and the finalists of Rock Band to be seen perform, I decided to live vicariously through the blog entries at:  www.thecodetrip.com. 

I heard that the bus may do a cross-country tour for PDC2008.  Now that would be fun!  Find me at PDC and I'll tell you stories of living on a bus for 18 months in Europe and North America.
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Watch the MIX08 Keynotes in Hyperspeed

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Mar 20th @ 9:35 AM

How did we take a boring old ballroom at the Venetian and convert it into an exciting and magical venue, replete with Scott Guthrie juggling and Steve Ballmer manhandling Guy Kawasaki's MacBook Air and cheering for web developers?  Watch this short timelape video to see the whole process from bare ballroom through setup, rehearsals, keynotes, and then final teardown after the show. 

If you want to see the keynotes at normal speed (or at 1.5x speed by playing in media player with ctrl+shift+g), you can view these links:
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WeatherBug MIX08 Keynote

Blog.PostedBy: Joshua Allen | Mar 19th @ 10:14 AM
Here is the keynote footage from WeatherBug in the MIX08 keynote.  You can see an in-depth interview with WeatherBug here.
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