Microsoft is building out its datacenters and datacenter infrastructure at a fast clip, as part of the provider;s stated mission to introduce a cloud version and/or cloud elements of all of its existing software products.While Microsoft does share some facts about what;s within these datacenters, the company seldom delivers an overview of its grand datacenter strategy. That;s why I used to be happy to obtain from 1 of my resources this slide (from November 2009),
Office 2010 Home And Student Key, which displays exactly where Microsoft has constructed and is constructing its Microsoft Over the internet datacenters across the world.(Click on about the slide beneath to enlarge.)Microsoft;s plan would be to pair up datacenters for each and every geographic area, with one datacenter being designated as primary along with the other, secondary,
Windows 7 64bit, for disaster-recovery purposes. Microsoft was evaluating no matter whether to place a primary datacenter in Brazil for that South American marketplace, backed up by a North American datacenter.Based on this slide, Microsoft will probably be incorporating assistance for buyers in Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Czech Republic, Greece,
Purchase Office 2007, Hungary, Israel, Mexico, Poland,
Office 2010 Discount, Puerto Rico, Romania, Hong Kong, South Korea and Taiwan in the coming months.Microsoft On the web — or MS On the internet, as it is labeled at the top of this slide — is the part of the corporation that develops and sells Microsoft-hosted offerings like the Online business Productivity On line Suite (BPOS); the individual BPOS services (SharePoint On the web, Exchange On the internet, Office Communications Over the internet and Live Meeting); Dynamics CRM Internet; 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,
Office 2007 Professional Plus Key, 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 Here;s a statement from Kevin Timmons, general manager of Datacenter Operations:“This is an outdated ‘vision’ slide which does not accurately reflect our current or future datacenter plans. Datacenters represent a long-term online business approach to meet future cloud services demands of buyers. We have to consider multiple proposals from across our enterprise groups to ensure we are making thoughtful, measured investments that are in line with our long-term internet business 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 is going to be interesting to see how Microsoft;s actual plans do compare to this slide, once they make the actual announcements (if they do).