{"id":1186,"date":"2007-04-16T12:56:45","date_gmt":"2007-04-16T12:56:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/new-microsoft-data-center-powers-web-services-push\/"},"modified":"2007-04-16T12:56:45","modified_gmt":"2007-04-16T12:56:45","slug":"new-microsoft-data-center-powers-web-services-push","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/new-microsoft-data-center-powers-web-services-push\/","title":{"rendered":"New Microsoft data center powers Web services push"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. <\/strong>But rather than corn or cows, this farm teems with computer servers and data storage systems that will serve as the backbone of Microsoft&#8217;s effort to combat escalating competition on the Web from Google and others.<\/p>\n<p>Microsoft&#8217;s new data center in Quincy, Washington, is its largest &#8220;server farm&#8221; to date&#8211;big enough to house seven soccer\u00a0fields&#8211;and a physical manifestation of the company&#8217;s giant ambitions to be a force in the world of Web services.<\/p>\n<p>The world&#8217;s largest software maker will officially flip the switch on tens of thousands of computer servers at the Quincy facility on Monday and Microsoft is already at work on a massive $550 million data center in San Antonio, Texas.<\/p>\n<p>Via: <a href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-9584_22-6176165.html\">ZdNet<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a century-old farming town in central Washington state, Microsoft has built a farm for the Internet age. But rather than corn or cows, this farm teems with computer servers and data storage systems that will serve as the backbone of Microsoft&#8217;s effort to combat escalating competition on the Web from Google and others. Microsoft&#8217;s new data center in Quincy,<\/p>\n<div class=\"clearfix\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"pull-left padding-top-25\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/16\/new-microsoft-data-center-powers-web-services-push\/\" class=\"btn btn-theme\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;New Microsoft data center powers Web services push&#8221;<\/span> <i class=\"fa fa-fw fa-long-arrow-right\"><\/i> <\/a>  <\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.darrenstraight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}