Chapter 5: IS in Business^{0}

Microsoft has opened there 550,00 square foot data center in Dublin. The company will run cloud services from the center for consumers, businesses and developers. The database will be able to run applications such as Microsoft’s Live Search formerly Hotmail as well as other Microsoft designed software. Businesses will have the option to subscribe to a wide array of hosted applications and server space. The new facility will also host Microsoft’s Azure platform which allows developers to host and manage web based applications.

From a business standpoint the location for the new data center was well thought out. Dublin has a relatively cool climate and great internet connectivity. Data centers need to be kept cool by some sort of cooling system which take up the predominate costs to have one open, but for the new data center they’ll be able to maintain its coolness 95% of the time just by the climate and using the natural air outside. This should cut operating costs dramatically and save the company a lot of money which means more net income for the business.

With Microsoft’s vision of the capacty planning for such a center and the scalability the business promotes ensures that the business understands that in order to stay at the top of the ladder they must adjust to present and future demands from consumers, businesses and developers.

Kirk,Jeremy, IDG News Service (2009) Microsoft set to fire up Dublin Data Center
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