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How Microsoft’s Data Centers in Middle East and Africa will affect the region

Hazem Nabih, director of Microsoft’s Middle East & Africa Intelligent Cloud Business Group shares on how the data centers will affect the region, as we look forward to the initial availability of these data centers. Microsoft’s announcement of new Azure regions with data centers coming to Africa and the Middle East will bring new opportunities. Across […]

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Microsoft deploys datacenter under the sea

Leveraging submarine technology and working with pioneers in marine energy Microsoft developed an self-sufficient underwater datacenters that can deliver lightning-quick cloud services to coastal cities. An experimental, shipping-container-size prototype is processing workloads on the seafloor near Scotland’s Orkney Islands, Microsoft announced today. The deployment of the Northern Isles datacenter at the European Marine Energy Centre […]