Microsoft is planting the seeds for the future of Windows Datacenter Server, by taking an innovative approach to virtualization. Virtualization is tricky for Microsoft. The technology is loaded with ...

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SEATTLE – Microsoft Corp. on Monday opened the doors of a massive data center in central Washington, turning what was once a bean farm into a “server farm.” The data center, based in Quincy is about ...

Somebody -- this time, Fortune magazine -- has trotted out the old Microsoft-is-becoming-IBM line again, suggesting that Google is rapidly making Redmond look like a dinosaur (or a chicken, depending ...

The announcement is a key milestone for Microsoft, which has ambitions to double its data center footprint over the next two years. The new Atlanta site is part of the company’s larger “Fairwater” ...

SharePoint Server 2016 introduces the MinRole feature, which is used during the deployment of SharePoint Server 2016 to define the role of the server being added to the SharePoint farm. In previous ...

Microsoft is offering users the opportunity to take a virtual tour of a typical Azure datacentre so they can get a behind-the-scenes look at the technology powering the public cloud services they use.

Let’s take a look… I built a web farm using two web servers running ASP.NET and IIS. On the back-end I installed two database servers running SQL Server. The idea was to use NLB on the front-end for ...

Website datacenterknowledge.com recently listed the 10 largest data centers in the world. Landing at No. 9 is the Microsoft Data Center in Quincy, in the heart of Grant County. Officially, the website ...

Most data centers are hidden away inside faceless warehouses and sport massive rows of computers and giant air conditioning units to keep things cool. But apparently that’s not good enough for ...

Two Windows 2008 Terminal Servers, in a farm for load balancing/redundancy.<BR><BR>I want to get single sign-on working, and believe that I need to install a certificate on both servers, where the ...