Microsoft’s Iowa data center cluster to reach 3.2M square feet

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CIO Data Center Aug 03, 2016 Microsoft's Iowa data center cluster to reach 3.2M square feet Microsoft is creating some 3.2 million square feet of data center space in the West Des Moines, Iowa, area but in three separate locations. The combined investment is about $3.5 billion. Read More ▶ Your Must-Read Stories • Dropbox aims for enterprise with new team and IT admin features • Windows Server 2016 licensing and servicing options explained • VCE chief boasts of hyperconvergence superpower • Hyperconverged Infrastructure Meets the Storage Monolith • Containers adoption remains in its infancy – but businesses should get ready for the next wave of virtualization White Paper: Insight Determining the Right Enterprise Data Center Strategy IT infrastructure today extends beyond four walls to public clouds. In some cases, traditional, on-site servers make sense. This whitepaper will help you examine several data center options to find the right fit for your organization. Read More ▶ Dropbox aims for enterprise with new team and IT admin features Continuing its effort to better appeal to enterprise users, Dropbox today announced a series of new features aimed at making its cloud-based storage and collaboration platform easier for teams of workers to use and IT administrators to centrally control. Read More ▶ Windows Server 2016 licensing and servicing options explained There is a new bifurcated servicing model for Windows Server that depends in part on which installation option you choose. Read More ▶ VCE chief boasts of hyperconvergence superpower VCE has only been in the hyperconverged appliance market since the February launch of its VxRail family, but President Chad Sakac says the company will soon be the number one player in that rapidly growing market. Read More ▶ Hyperconverged Infrastructure Meets the Storage Monolith Questions, considerations, and a way forward Read More ▶ Containers adoption remains in its infancy – but businesses should get ready for the next wave of virtualization There has been a surge of interest in containers in recent years, particularly in the wake of Docker's popularity among developers. Many are now suggesting that the virtualization technology could eventually replace the hypervisors which have become near-ubiquitous in enterprise data centers. Read More ▶ White Paper: AT&T / AT&T Wireless Network Infrastructure Made Simple Eliminate lengthy network equipment configuration times, simplify infrastructure management, and lower your TCO using a service based on network function virtualization (NFV) technology. Read More ▶ 8 noteworthy improvements in the Windows 10 Anniversary Update You have lots of good stuff to look forward to in the next major release of Windows 10. Here are the highlights. ▶ How to decide when to buy software and when to build it Every company may be a software company now, but that doesn't mean you have to build it all yourself. When can you buy the same standard apps your competitors use? Why should you invest in building your own? And when you do build, how little code can you get away with? We explain. ▶

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