Two years after deploying a shipping-container-size data center to the depths off Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft has reeled it back in, scrubbed off algae and barnacles and assessed the ...

Microsoft installed a data center underwater off of Scotland in 2018 to see ... The next step was creating the Northern Isles data center, a 40-foot long shipping container-like vessel with 864 ...

Microsoft has concluded a years-long experiment involving use of a shipping container-sized underwater data center, placed on the sea floor off the cost of Scotland’s Orkney Islands. The company ...

Microsoft Azure just announced a new design for modular, portable data centers. Azure is the company's cloud computing service, used by big names including Boeing, eBay, and Samsung.. The Azure ...

The growing demands of Microsoft’s core customers necessitate dramatic alterations in the way Microsoft’s data centers are set up. Before their server racks were replaced one at a time,… ...

Microsoft's Azure Modular data center brings computing on the edge. If there’s one thing you can rely on, in today’s world, it’s change. And change often happens fast, leaving you chasing ...

Microsoft Corp.’s plan to fill its mammoth Chicago data center with servers housed in 40-foot shipping containers has experts wondering whether the strategy will succeed.

Microsoft is giving an update on its underwater Northern Isles datacenter placed inside a watertight shipping-container-size enclosure and has spent its time under 117 feet of water since being ...

Microsoft has released more details on the design of its data center containers, assembled on-site - the company's main strategy for scaling IT infrastructure going forward. Kevin Timmons, general ...

Microsoft's top data center manager said last week that the company plans to install up to 220 shipping containers, each holding 1,000 to 2,000 servers, at a new facility near Chicago.

The vast majority of people live within 200 kilometers of the ocean, Cutler noted, and Microsoft’s cloud strategy has long been about putting its data centers close to major population centers.

Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) has seen strong growth in its server products and cloud services division.The company is aggressively growing its data center business.What Happened: The ...