Comments on: Microsoft's big switch to server/client computing

Debra Chrapaty, corporate vice president of Global Foundation Services at Microsoft, sheds some light on the cloud-based infrastructure supporting Microsoft's move to server/client computing.

[someguy999]

this article was a let down, it says nearly no valuable information. oh well.

[t8]

Hmmmm

Trust, reliability, and efficiency as mentioned are not Microsoft attributes at all.

Microsoft will find it hard to compete in this space if those are the 3 requirements.

Google is better suited here.

[itsmillertime4u]

I have to agree with someguy999, the title of this article is very misleading. I too am disappointed, as I was expecting some news about Windows terminal server, RDP, VDI, etc. Instead I was fed a boring useless story. Thanks Dan!

[chadmarkley]

Are these numbers correct??

"The company deploys 10,000 new servers per month on average to keep up with demand, Chrapaty said."

That means on average they deploy 120,000 servers each year! That doesn't seem accurate.

[Vegaman_Dan]

Considering the size of the new data centers going online in Union Gap, WA where land prices are cheap and the physical buildings make a Walmart look like a garden shed... I think it's indeed very possible.

[igl00lgi]

Why would you not believe those numbers. This is MS your talking about. They save millions of billions of dollars.

[dfarber]

that's what she said....

[JeffreyYang]

Good for Microsoft, SOA is just a BS word.

[someguy999]

btw, there was another article just posted on the webware which goes into more detail as it appears this discussion was part of a larger MS and Salesforce.com conversation... I suggest the other.

also. here's my question to the guy who says you can trust Google. why? (and once again try and contain the answer to just talking about Google, and not your feelings on MS) what makes you feel you can trust them more than say... S3 and amazon... or anybody else. App engine went down and its been less than a month... so does that build on your reliability level? It seems more like a bandwagon statement... another great example is how adwords refuses to go to the level of detail with what you'll actually get out of it to its users... basically you pay us money and we'll put you where we think you should go...

[starsfan18]

Debra is pretty smart if she can find a way to save "millions of billions of dollars."