Are you feeling the credit crunch? Most Americans are affected one way or the other. Higher grocery bills are hard to ignore at the checkout and many of us know of someone who has lost their job in 2008.
     In my opinion, downsizing is a sign of the economy turning around. Companies realize that they need to cut-back and reorganize, and not continue the spending spree of the last decade. They are finally learning that to be more profitable in today’s economy a company needs to stick to its core competencies.

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Data Centers are a hot topic these days.  No matter where you look, this once obscure aspect of infrastructure is getting a lot of attention.  For years, there have been cost pressures on IT operations and this, when the need for modern capacity is greater than ever, has thrust data centers into the spotlight.

Server and rack density continues to rise, placing DC professionals and businesses in tighter and tougher situations while they struggle to manage their IT environments.  And now hyper-scale cloud infrastructure is taking traditional technologies to limits never explored before and focusing the imagination of the IT industry on new possibilities.

Microsoft, has focused a lot of thought and research around how to best operate and maintain their global infrastructure.  They believe it is one of the most revolutionary changes to happen to data centers in the last 30 years.

Generation 4 modular data centers will take the flexibility of containerized servers—like those in Microsoft’s Chicago data center—and apply it across the entire facility.
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