Microsoft is constructing out its datacenters and datacenter infrastructure at a rapid clip, as component with the company;s stated mission to introduce a cloud edition and/or cloud elements of all of its current software program items.Even though Microsoft does share some facts about what;s inside these datacenters, the company seldom offers an overview of its grand datacenter strategy. That;s why I was pleased to get from 1 of my resources this slide (from November 2009), which shows where Microsoft has constructed and is also constructing its Microsoft On the net datacenters across the world.(Click on the slide beneath to enlarge.)Microsoft;s plan would be to pair up datacenters for each geographic region, with one datacenter becoming designated as main plus the other, secondary, for disaster-recovery reasons. Microsoft was evaluating no matter if to put a main datacenter in Brazil for that South American market,
Office 2010 Serial, backed up by a North American datacenter.Based on this slide, Microsoft will be incorporating assistance for customers in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Poland,
Windows 7 Enterprise, Puerto Rico, Romania, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan within the coming months.Microsoft On the internet — or MS Over the internet,
Microsoft Office 2010 Professional, as it is labeled at the top of this slide — is the part of the organization that develops and sells Microsoft-hosted offerings like the Home business Productivity Via the internet Suite (BPOS); the individual BPOS services (SharePoint Via the internet, Exchange On the net,
Windows 7 Pro Key, Office Communications On the internet and Live Meeting); Dynamics CRM On-line; and forthcoming new services, like the BPOS-Lite product I wrote about earlier this year.Update: Looks like things may have changed in terms of Microsoft;s plans,
Microsoft Office Professional Plus, 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 Here;s a statement from Kevin Timmons, general manager of Datacenter Operations:“This is an outdated ‘vision’ slide which does not accurately reflect our existing or future datacenter plans.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 enterprise approach to meet future cloud services demands of consumers. We have to consider multiple proposals from across our home business 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 assistance future capacity incrementally in a cost-efficient manner.”I;d interpret this as “don;t expect this stuff to happen in April.” It will be interesting to see how Microsoft;s actual plans do compare to this slide, once they make the actual announcements (if they do).