Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open source code

Re:Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open so... by thrownaway2424 on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @01:39PM (#7380812)

eyeroll You can lose the NSA's largest datacenter in a corner of any Google, Facebook, Microsoft, Amazon, or Apple datacenter. Even their OMG-gigantzor datacenter in Utah includes a mere 100k square feet of computer room floor area. Given government overhead and inefficiency, a 100k sq-ft NSA datacenter is probably the equivalent of a 10k sq-ft commercial datacenter.

By comparison, one of Apple's datacenter buildings is over 300k sq-ft, and Apple is at best a minor also-ran in the datacenter business.

The NSA's computing facilities are insignificant compared to commercial facilities.

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Re:Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open so... by sbierwagen on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @02:07PM (#7380996)

That's because the commercial facilities are doing all the heavy lifting for the NSA. Facebook does all the analysis, NSA gets the finished reports.

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Re:Microsoft reveals its server designs and releases open so... by mpyne on Tuesday March 11, 2014 @06:12PM (#7382561)

You realize NSA has a lot more signals interception programs than just PRISM, right?

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