data center

Turns out that sales taxes are more difficult to calculate than it might seem. More than 15,000 taxable regions inside the US form a mosiac for sales tax calculation. Fire districts, state districts, special taxation districts, and state rules on items all play a part. Avalara put…

Through its Datawire service, NewsGator aggregates approximately 1.6 million content sources on an hourly basis. This service used to be housed in their own data center; NewsGator recently moved this service to Windows Azure. The VP of Mobile and Data Services, Walker Fenton, and Software Developer…

Recording from Cloud Day in Belgium. It’s Time for Private Cloud: Microsoft Data Center Services Solution Get all you need to know about delivering Infrastructure as a Service using a private cloud deployment model by leveraging the Microsoft Data Center Services Solution? Find out what the Data…

Recording from Cloud Day in Belgium. The Road to a Private Cloud Infrastructure How does Data Center automatic look, how does it feel? What benefits could it provide to you today? You may have some of these features… but how does it feel when you have an integrated virtualization, end to end…

Recording from Cloud Day in Belgium. Travis Gerber introduces his session called 'It’s Time for Private Cloud: Microsoft Data Center Services Solution'  

Auction giant eBay is adopting Microsoft’s new Windows Azure platform appliance, according to news from the Wordwide Partner Conference going on now in D.C. The appliance is “a turnkey cloud platform” that consists of Windows Azure, SQL Azure and a Microsoft-specified configuration of network,…

If you didn’t attend PDC 2009, you missed a chance to see Windows Azure up close and personal. How close? How about being able to actually walk inside an Azure data center container? That’s right – one of the cooler displays at PDC was a modular container that was just sitting there on PDC’s…

Microsoft became the first company to publicly announce a data center designed out of shipping containers. The announcement was made by Mike Manos, who leads the Microsoft Global Foundations Data Center team, at Data Center World. To key the notes from Manos' speech, the Data Center Links blog…