Microsoft’s Data-Center Tab Tops $15 Billion
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In 1989 Microsoft shipped its first version of its SQL Server database, bootstrapped a multimedia division and promoted a guy named Steve Ballmer to the role of senior vice president. It also built its first data center. By today’s standards it was a modest operation: a 89,000-square-foot facility in Building 11 of its Redmond, Washington, campus. http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/02/microsofts-data-center/[^]
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