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"Microsoft's change in how it approaches open source began pretty significantly about seven years ago when I joined the company. One of my primary focuses was on helping bring a strong shift in the way Microsoft thinks about, participates in, and works with open source communities.
Today, this takes the shape of open source projects, code contributions, financial contributions, and other ways with a strong focus on being compatible with existing open source communities. From my team alone, we've made a number of investments in open source in the last year: These include contributions to the jQuery JavaScript Library, the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF), the Silverlight Analytics Framework (SAF), the Silverlight Control Toolkit, the AJAX Control Toolkit, and Project Orchard.
In addition to projects and code, we also worked closely with open source application communities like DotNetNuke, Drupal, WordPress and others via our work on the Windows Web App Gallery. Microsoft is delivering advertising to help increase the size of the ecosystem for these applications on Windows Server and IIS. This is great because it drives more opportunities for the ecosystems around these applications to service customers and monetize and it helps drive increased use of Windows€"this effort has driven over 1.5-million application installations!"
The March 25 release is the third CTP (CTP3) of the "CRM5" technology and it is aimed at software developers within the broad partner base of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, including independent software vendors (ISVs), global system integrators (GSIs), hosting partners and value-added resellers (VARs), giving them an opportunity to start early development and testing of their solutions for this new release, Microsoft said.
More than 400 select partners are engaged in the CTP3 program, and that number will be expanded in the coming months, Microsoft said.
€With this next version, Microsoft is continuing to drive new levels of user productivity and collaboration, giving customers deep core CRM capabilities, low total cost of ownership, and fast and easy deployment options for their CRM applications,€ said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, in a statement.Only the concrete pad will need to be built on-site, with everything else shipped in as a pre-manufactured unit. That's a step beyond the current approach, used in places like the company's massive new Chicago data center, where Microsoft has the servers shipped in a container but still requires a traditional building to provide water and cooling.
Data centers are key to the economics of Microsoft's future--everything from Bing to the cloud-based Windows Azure to the Microsoft-hosted versions of today's software like Exchange and SharePoint
"Our plan for the future is to have essentially everything but the concrete pad pre-manufactured and then assembled on site: the IT, mechanical and electrical components are all part of pre-assembled components that we call an 'ITPAC,'" general manager Kevin Timmons said in a blog posting on Tuesday.
Timmons said that the units will be made from standard recyclable parts such as steel and aluminum and will be able to be cooled with as little as a single water hose using residential levels of water pressure.
The units could house anywhere from 400 to 2,500 servers and draw between 200 kilowatts and 600 kilowatts. With automation, Timmons said that a single person could build a unit in just four days. The units could either be placed in a large building, or even placed outside as long as they had protective panels attached.
"We believe that by utilizing this new approach, Microsoft can reduce the time it takes to ramp up new cloud computing capacity in half the time as traditional data center infrastructures, as well as significantly reduce the cost of the building," Timmons said. "This gives us the flexibility to grow without having to commit to a large upfront investment for a data center and hope that demand shows up later."
The units also have significant environmental benefits over prior data center designs, using far less water--as little as 1 percent of traditional data centers--and using ambient air as opposed to requiring expensive chillers to cool the servers.
On the down side, Timmons isn't expecting to win any beauty prizes for the new-look data centers. http://www.exam1pass.com/70-599-exam.html
"These facilities will not be pretty and might actually resemble the barns I spent so much time around during my childhood in rural Illinois," he said.
Microsoft had said as early as 2008 that it planned to head in this direction. It showed off an early version of the self-contained unit at last year's Professional Developers Conference.
€We see Microsoft Dynamics CRM driving innovation and focus in the customer relationship management (CRM) marketplace,€ said Aziz Virani, executive vice president of the Avanade Technology Solutions Group, in a statement. €It continues to raise the bar on ease of use, and delivers real and measurable value to our customers. This next generation of the product provides us with more opportunities to create innovative solutions for our customers.€http://www.exam1pass.com/70-599-exam.html
Today, this takes the shape of open source projects, code contributions, financial contributions, and other ways with a strong focus on being compatible with existing open source communities. From my team alone, we've made a number of investments in open source in the last year: These include contributions to the jQuery JavaScript Library, the Silverlight Media Framework (SMF), the Silverlight Analytics Framework (SAF), the Silverlight Control Toolkit, the AJAX Control Toolkit, and Project Orchard.
In addition to projects and code, we also worked closely with open source application communities like DotNetNuke, Drupal, WordPress and others via our work on the Windows Web App Gallery. Microsoft is delivering advertising to help increase the size of the ecosystem for these applications on Windows Server and IIS. This is great because it drives more opportunities for the ecosystems around these applications to service customers and monetize and it helps drive increased use of Windows€"this effort has driven over 1.5-million application installations!"
The March 25 release is the third CTP (CTP3) of the "CRM5" technology and it is aimed at software developers within the broad partner base of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, including independent software vendors (ISVs), global system integrators (GSIs), hosting partners and value-added resellers (VARs), giving them an opportunity to start early development and testing of their solutions for this new release, Microsoft said.
More than 400 select partners are engaged in the CTP3 program, and that number will be expanded in the coming months, Microsoft said.
€With this next version, Microsoft is continuing to drive new levels of user productivity and collaboration, giving customers deep core CRM capabilities, low total cost of ownership, and fast and easy deployment options for their CRM applications,€ said Brad Wilson, general manager of Microsoft Dynamics CRM, in a statement.Only the concrete pad will need to be built on-site, with everything else shipped in as a pre-manufactured unit. That's a step beyond the current approach, used in places like the company's massive new Chicago data center, where Microsoft has the servers shipped in a container but still requires a traditional building to provide water and cooling.
Data centers are key to the economics of Microsoft's future--everything from Bing to the cloud-based Windows Azure to the Microsoft-hosted versions of today's software like Exchange and SharePoint
"Our plan for the future is to have essentially everything but the concrete pad pre-manufactured and then assembled on site: the IT, mechanical and electrical components are all part of pre-assembled components that we call an 'ITPAC,'" general manager Kevin Timmons said in a blog posting on Tuesday.
Timmons said that the units will be made from standard recyclable parts such as steel and aluminum and will be able to be cooled with as little as a single water hose using residential levels of water pressure.
The units could house anywhere from 400 to 2,500 servers and draw between 200 kilowatts and 600 kilowatts. With automation, Timmons said that a single person could build a unit in just four days. The units could either be placed in a large building, or even placed outside as long as they had protective panels attached.
"We believe that by utilizing this new approach, Microsoft can reduce the time it takes to ramp up new cloud computing capacity in half the time as traditional data center infrastructures, as well as significantly reduce the cost of the building," Timmons said. "This gives us the flexibility to grow without having to commit to a large upfront investment for a data center and hope that demand shows up later."
The units also have significant environmental benefits over prior data center designs, using far less water--as little as 1 percent of traditional data centers--and using ambient air as opposed to requiring expensive chillers to cool the servers.
On the down side, Timmons isn't expecting to win any beauty prizes for the new-look data centers. http://www.exam1pass.com/70-599-exam.html
"These facilities will not be pretty and might actually resemble the barns I spent so much time around during my childhood in rural Illinois," he said.
Microsoft had said as early as 2008 that it planned to head in this direction. It showed off an early version of the self-contained unit at last year's Professional Developers Conference.
€We see Microsoft Dynamics CRM driving innovation and focus in the customer relationship management (CRM) marketplace,€ said Aziz Virani, executive vice president of the Avanade Technology Solutions Group, in a statement. €It continues to raise the bar on ease of use, and delivers real and measurable value to our customers. This next generation of the product provides us with more opportunities to create innovative solutions for our customers.€http://www.exam1pass.com/70-599-exam.html
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