Joseph Hinkle at MyITForum.com

Vice President - Global Foundation Services - Runs datacenters and networks

• Software + services
• The cloud is not a cloud - the cloud is just a series of datacenters
• Global Foundation Services
  • Live Search - 2.16 billion queries per month
  • MSN - 550m unique users - 10b page views
  • Windows Live - 1b+ authentications per day, Messenger: 8.2b messages daily
• Add 10,000 servers per month, 3x number of datacenters, 15x servers, 15x power
• I'm a desktop guy, so I'm already bored - notes will start getting sketchy as I check email, sleep, and generally drift mentally
• Datacenters are all about location - power availability
• Sustainability - Outside air cooling, hydro-electric power, "grey" water, reflective paint, server that use less power
• Server trends - Hardware: multi-core, Virtualization: using every server at capacity
• Containers - Storage container that stores a datacenter - can be wheeled in on demand- Microsoft calls them CBlox - a datacenter full of containers can contain 3x the watts per square foot
• Networks and trust -
• Manageability - They support multiple platforms so SCOM extensions are important to them too - measured on servers per server engineers: 5000:1 in a 200,000 server environment
• 1 trillion rows of performance data per day - 80,000 performance counters per day - 1m events per day