#Microsoft has added additional data center capacity to two of its cloud "regions" in the U.S. and Europe, and plans to do the same to all of its #datacenter s going forward. Customers can preview this new capacity now running in #Azure locations in Northern Virginia and Amsterdam. A new data center facility in Paris coming online later this year will also sport the additional computing setup. RAY KURZWEIL Why Futurist Ray Kurzweil Isn’t Worried About Technology Stealing Your Job In this move, announced in a blog post, Microsoft is adding what techies call "availability zones" which are basically separate-but-connected data centers each with their own power supply, cooling system, close to existing data centers. This arrangement enables customers to move workloads from one zone to another quickly. This is important if one of the zones experiences a localized problem. The goal is to have three availability zones per region.
http://fortune.com/2017/09/22/microsoft-cloud-data-center-expansion/
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