Data Center Knowledge – Dell Inc. (DELL) is building a data center in a shipping container for a customer, and will follow with a container product line. We have (a container system) in the works for a customer, a Dell insider told The Register. We are looking at that space very, very closely. The Registers Ashlee… read more

Data Center Knowledge – Microsoft will be able to pack up to 300,000 servers into the data center container farm it is building on the first floor of its new Chicago data center. By packing the 40-foot shipping containers with data center equipment, Microsoft will be able to manage extraordinarily dense server [...] read more

4sysops – For Windows Administrators – The feature complete Beta of System Center Virtual Machine Manager (VMM 2008, sometimes you read SCVMM 2008) is available for some days now. Microsoft’s new management tool for centralized deployment and management for Virtual Server 2005, Server 2008 Hyper-V and VMware ESX can be downloaded via Microsoft Connect. Today I had a quick look at it. [...] read more