Microsoft's Muglia brings 'Cloud Computing for Dummies' on stage
He said cloud computing is changing the way companies build and buy hardware and write applications. More computers will be bought in mass to run discrete systems, he said. Microsoft used to buy full, pre-configured racks of servers, but it's now buying entire shipping containers of two thousands servers and petabytes of storage at a time. This is rolled into the data center, where the company adds power, cooling and Ethernet, and it's ready to go.
