Microsoft is building out its datacenters and datacenter infrastructure at a quick clip, as component with the corporation;s stated mission to introduce a cloud version and/or cloud elements of all of its current software items.Although Microsoft does share some information and facts about what;s inside these datacenters,
Office Enterprise 2007, the enterprise seldom gives an overview of its grand datacenter strategy. That;s why I was delighted to get from one of my sources this slide (from November 2009), which exhibits where Microsoft has built and is also creating its Microsoft On line datacenters across the globe.(Click around the slide beneath to enlarge.)Microsoft;s plan would be to pair up datacenters for each geographic region,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, with one datacenter becoming designated as primary along with the other, secondary, for disaster-recovery purposes. Microsoft was evaluating no matter whether to put a main datacenter in Brazil for your South American market,
Office 2010 Home And Business Key, backed up by a North American datacenter.According to this slide, Microsoft will be adding assistance for consumers in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Poland, Puerto Rico, Romania, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan inside the coming months.Microsoft Internet — or MS Via the internet, as it is labeled at the top of this slide — is the part with the corporation that develops and sells Microsoft-hosted offerings like the Company Productivity Over the internet Suite (BPOS); the individual BPOS services (SharePoint On the net, Exchange Internet, Office Communications Via the internet and Live Meeting); Dynamics CRM On-line; and forthcoming new services,
Windows 7 Serial, like the BPOS-Lite product I wrote about earlier this year.Update: Looks like things may have changed in terms of Microsoft;s plans, since they created this slide in November 2009. Here;s a statement from Kevin Timmons, general manager of Datacenter Operations:“This is an outdated ‘vision’ slide which does not accurately reflect our existing or future datacenter plans.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 buyers. We have to consider multiple proposals from across our organization groups to ensure we are making thoughtful, measured investments that are in line with our long-term enterprise approach to meet future demand by pre-investing in a way that allows us to support future capacity incrementally in a cost-efficient manner.”I;d interpret this as “don;t expect this stuff to happen in April.” It will likely be interesting to see how Microsoft;s actual plans do compare to this slide,
Windows 7 Starter Key, once they make the actual announcements (if they do).
