Neowin News Feed for: Datacenters

Microsoft acquires Fungible in push for datacenter innovation

Hamza Jawad — Mon, 09 Jan 2023 19:06:02 +0000

With this latest move in the datacenter innovation spectrum, the Redmond-based firm has cemented its commitment towards investing in modern datacenter infrastructure for the long term. Read more...

Microsoft announces datacenter-in-a-(big)-box

Abhishek Baxi — Tue, 20 Oct 2020 15:04:32 +0000

Microsoft has announced a self-contained datacenter - Microsoft Azure Modular Datacenter - for challenging remote missions to take advantage of cloud computing at the intelligent edge. Read more...

Microsoft announces five new initiatives to advance toward its 2030 carbon negative goal

Hamza Jawad — Tue, 21 Jul 2020 15:00:01 +0000

In terms of sustainability initiatives, the new steps announced at Inspire 2020 today are specifically aimed at accelerating progress towards Microsoft's goal of being carbon negative by 2030. Read more...

Microsoft launches first datacenters in Africa

Hamza Jawad — Wed, 06 Mar 2019 17:14:02 +0000

Microsoft's opening of new datacenters in Africa make it the first global provider to deliver cloud services to the continent. Azure will also be generally available in these new cloud regions. Read more...

Microsoft demands Congress make 21st century laws for 21st century technology

Richard Tyr Blewitt — Wed, 28 Feb 2018 13:38:01 +0000

Microsoft is encouraged by the proceedings of the United States v. Microsoft Corp. case. Where the Supreme Court has been hearing arguments about overseas data storage and transfer. Read more...

Microsoft shares its data protection and cloud privacy measures

Florin Bodnarescu — Wed, 29 Mar 2017 03:26:01 +0000

Microsoft has shared a few of the methods employed to ensure the security of the data it handles. It was also quick to point out its efforts at transparency in the benefit of the end user. Read more...

Microsoft successfully shows off demo of fuel cells to power datacenters

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Feb 2014 21:52:13 +0000

Microsoft has announced it has successfully demonstrated the use of fuel cells to directly power a rack of servers in a datacenter, which could lead to lower energy and infrastructure costs. Read more...