Microsoft builds first major container-based datacenter
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft and Sun Microsystems both may claim to have pioneered the "datacenter in a box" concept, but Microsoft appears to be the first company that is rolling out container-based systems in a major way inside one of its datacenters.
At a conference in Las Vegas last week, Michael Manos , Microsoft's senior director of datacenter services, said in a keynote speech that the first floor of a datacenter being built by the software vendor in the Chicago area will hold up to 220 shipping containers, each preconfigured to support between 1,000 and 2,000 servers, according to various news reports and blog posts.