data centers

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…

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…

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,…

At the TechEd Conference, Bill Gates gave his last speech as a Microsoft full-time employee and one of the topics he discussed was Microsoft’s vision for cloud computing. (Full transcript is here.) In the speech, Gates spoke of Microsoft’s plan to have “many millions” of servers in the cloud,…

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…