Mat's thoughts on the 3rd keynote

I know Brian has already covered some of it, I just had some additional notes that I thought were interesting.

• Microsoft are beginning to use Data Centres in a container. They have their first one installed in Boulder, Colorado which provides Virtual Earth. It is entirely powered by wind power.
• They have found System Centre a great help with acquisitions because it can now monitor and manager diverse environments and is massively scalable.
• Average is 1 engineer to manager 5000 servers!
• Internal Microsoft IT are basically the beta testers for all the System Centre products.
• They deal with 1 million events per day!

I think it would be very interesting to spend time with their team to see how they do things. Same for the desktop area who are more advanced in terms of the newer products and their use. I'll blog that in another post.