The way some people act, Machine Learning is something new. It is something that has been around for quite a while. To give you an idea Microsoft Research has 622 publications on the subject.
Google has 371 on the same subject.
Microsoft runs out of US IPv4 addresses in Azure, assigns non-US addresses until they run out?
Microsoft posts on how they are assigning non-US IPv4 addresses to US customers given they have run out of IPv4 addresses.
IPv4 address space has been fully assigned in the United States, meaning there is no additional IPv4 address space available. This requires Microsoft to use the IPv4 address space available to us globally for the addressing of new services. The result is that we will have to use IPv4 address space assigned to a non-US region to address services which may be in a US region. It is not possible to transfer registration because the IP space is allocated to the registration authorities by Internet Assigned Numbers Authority.
At times your service may appear to be hosted in a non-US location.
Service and Data are located where deployed
It is important to note that the IP address registration authority does not equate to IP address physical location (i.e., you can have an IP address registered in Brazil but allocated to a device or service physically located in Virginia). Thus when you deploy to a U.S. region, your service is still hosted in U.S. and your customer data will remain in the U.S. as detailed in our Trust Center: http://www.windowsazure.com/en-us/support/trust-center/privacy/
We are currently working with a few major IP geo-location database companies to update the location of these IPs which should help alleviate the issues this may be causing.
It’s too bad in this post, no mention is of IPv6 and what the longer term plan is.
Microsoft expands for 3rd time in Boydton, VA
Timesdispatch posts on Microsoft’s 3rd expansion in Boydton, VA.
Microsoft Corp. will invest $346.7 million to expand its data center site in Mecklenburg County — for the third time — creating 90 jobs.
“This expansion opens up many more opportunities for our county to offer jobs to our citizens and greatly expand our economic base,” Glenn Barbour, chairman of the Mecklenburg County Board of Supervisors, said in a statement. “We look forward to working with Microsoft well into the future.”
When the new expansion is complete, Microsoft will employ 170 workers at the data center in Boydton.
“Each expansion allows us to better meet our customers’ growing cloud service needs,” Christian Belady, Microsoft’s general manager of data center services, said in a statement.
Here are the past two projects.
Microsoft’s original project in 2010 involved an investment of up to $499 million and creation of 50 jobs at the Mecklenburg data center. In 2011, the company invested an additional $150 million to expand the site, and in 2013 announced a $348 million expansion.
Technical Guy who Listens to Customers, Is One of Those Behind Microsoft's Changes
Mark Russinovich joined Microsoft the year I left 2006. I had a chance to see Mark in action at a Microsoft conference in 2008 and in 2014 Wired has written a story that highlights Mark's role at Microsoft.
The one thing that stands out about Mark is his focus on the customer.
‘Look at what you’re doing through the eyes of the customer, treat the customer with respect, and assume the customer is smart.’The company’s decision to refashion Azure as a service where businesses could run practically any software, including Linux, says Russinovich, was a direct response to discussions with longtime Microsoft customers. They wanted a way to move their existing software into the cloud, rather than just building new applications to suit Azure’s very specific architecture. “We needed to give them an on-ramp,” he says, and that’s what he helped design. It’s this kind of simple customer interaction, Russinovich explains, that shows how Microsoft is now aligning with his personal values. “It’s really just following some basics that can get lost in the heat of the drive to grab revenue and maximize profits: look at what you’re doing through the eyes of the customer, treat the customer with respect, and assume the customer is smart,” he says.
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“He has real vision,” says HP cloud chief Bill Hilf, who once worked alongside Russinovich at Microsoft. “And he knows how to listen to customers.”
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“Without trust, there is no cloud. You’re asking customers to give you their data to manage, and if they don’t trust you, there’s no way they’re going to give it to you. You can screw up trust really easily. You can screw it up just by showing incompetence. But if you show intentional undermining of trust, your business is done.”
West Des Moines Public Disclosure, Project Alluvion is Microsoft Data Center
KCCI News 8 broke the news on who in behind Project Alluvion.
The company behind Project Alluvion in West Des Moines is -- Microsoft.
West Des Moines city officials and Gov. Terry Branstad made the official announcement during a news conference Friday morning.
Microsoft said it will build a new $1.126 billion data center along Highway 5 near Willow Creek Golf Course and just east of the South Veterans Parkway, which used to be known as the Southwest Connector.
FYI here is a tip as part researching the news on Project Alluvion. Look at went the news was posted. I choose to reference KCCI new given they broke the news first.