148,357 Servers on 17,406 Racks!

A while ago I posted about Cloud Computing, a topic currently generating a lot of Google search results.  Today IStartedSomething has a post which extracts some figures from a Microsoft environment video.  The stats taken from the video show Microsoft with 15 datacentres hosting 148,357 servers on sitting on 17,406 racks!

And growing at 10,000 new servers per month!

Technorati tags: cloud computing, data centre, data center

Why Microsoft is Like Britney Spears

The CleverWorkArounds posts on Why SharePoint Projects Fail is now up to Part 3.  This part has the following comparison, which I just had to reproduce here

“Microsoft in some ways remind me of Britney Spears. Both crash things, both can be abusive, both get themselves into trouble with the law, both have ignored legal judgements, both have loyal fans who love them no matter what and detractors that will never accept they can do anything right, both get caught with their pants down on occasion, and both have produced some pretty ordinary crap in their time. Despite this, they sell squillions of copies and make a ton of money.”

Splendid stuff…

Nice Site Makeover at OfficeZealot

I see OfficeZealot.com has had a fairly substantial makeover.  OfficeZealot has been around for a while, and has always been a good source of information on Microsoft Office and associated technologies such as SharePoint, Business Intelligence etc.  The new site has been developed using SharePoint 2007, custom web parts, SilverLight and Community server, and their blog has several “how we did it” posts.

End User SharePoint

I came across a nice site from Mark Miller the other day, called End User SharePoint.  Mark is based in New York City, and his motto is “No GeekSpeak on SharePoint 2007″. 

The site content includes lots of useful little screencasts on creating a SharePoint Document Management Center.  Mark’s articles are worth reading as well.    I particularly liked the one on Learning SharePoint 2007 – Incremental Steps.

Technorati tags: sharepoint 2007, end user, training

Deja Vu – Someone Saw Photosynth?

I saw the film Deja Vu a couple of weeks ago – quite good, obviously totally unbelievable plot about time travel, recording tile etc but still worth watching.  What I did notice was that the software that they were using to play back time was VERY similar to the user interface that Microsoft labs are using in Photosynth.  It’s true that the Microsoft plug-in doesn’t let you play back recordings of events in time yet though.

Mind you, they do have this project called MyLifeBits which could fit quite well….

Technorati tags: photosynth, Microsoft labs