Cloud computing relies on the economy of scale of large data centres. Their cost and complexity mean that only few companies world-wide can design build and operate them, ensuring scalability, reliability, efficiency, security and sustainability.

But what’s in a data centre?

We have recently released a video tour of four of Microsoft’s global datacentres to demystify ‘cloud computing’. This video provides an inside look at the evolution of the Microsoft data centres, since our first datacentre in 1989 and focuses on few example, including our first European “mega data centre” in Dublin.

As underlined by Dileep Bhandarkar, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft Global Foundation Services, in his blog, more than a billion customers and 20 million businesses in over 70 countries use our cloud computing services each year. Microsoft’s cloud is now comprised of a globally distributed datacentre infrastructure supporting online services including Windows Azure, Office 365, Bing, MSN, Windows Live, Hotmail and Xbox Live.

• Microsoft’s quest for greater efficiency in the cloud
• Keep it cool: the greening of Microsoft’s data centers
• Meeting sustainability requirements in Microsoft Data Centers in Europe

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