Get ready to thumb a ride into the foundations of the cloud. Chris and Mark take you on an audible time hop through the stages of Microsoft data center innovation, planning and scale – into the foundational underpinnings of SharePoint in Office 365. First, they speak with Richard Harrison, data center technical architect, about how Microsoft invents at the physical data center layer (in a full-scale data center lab). Second, Mark speaks with Som Coelho, principal program manager, to understand large-scale, long-term hardware capacity planning. Thirdly, we chat with Zach Rosenfield, principal group program manager, charged with making SharePoint an elastic, reliable, scalable service worldwide. It's a longer episode, and it's worth every 90 minutes of it. Thumbs out. Here we go!

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION AND RESOURCES:

TRT: 01:29:09:00

1. Show Intro
2. Topic of the Week – The Microsoft datacenter: Interview w/ Richard Harrison [00:04:00:00]
3. Guest Perspective, pt.1: SharePoint in the datacenter with Som Coelho [00:29:00:00]
4. Guest Perspective, pt.2: SharePoint in the datacenter with Zach Rosenfield [00:41:00:00]
5. FAQs of the Week [01:14:00:00]
6. Upcoming Events 
7. Show Wrap / Outro

Articles:

• "Take a look inside Microsoft’s Quincy, Wash. data center": https://www.computerworld.com/article/3136160/data-center/take-a-look-inside-microsofts-quincy-wash-data-center.html
• Main Microsoft news blog: https://news.microsoft.com/features/under-the-sea-microsoft-tests-a-datacenter-thats-quick-to-deploy-could-provide-internet-connectivity-for-years/
• Inside Microsoft's New Quincy Cloud Farm http://www.datacenterknowledge.com/inside-microsofts-new-quincy-cloud-farm/
• Project Natick website: https://natick.research.microsoft.com/
• Project Natick video: https://youtu.be/AvvJc4Uw3aA
• NYTimes article about Project Natick: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/01/technology/microsoft-plumbs-oceans-depths-to-test-underwater-data-center.html
• Microsoft Data Centers info and video tour: http://www.microsoft.com/datacenters

 

Primary resources and social:

SharePoint site https://products.office.com/SharePoint/

SharePoint Community Blog http://office.com/sharepoint/community

SharePoint Facebook https://www.facebook.com/MSSharePoint/

SharePoint Twitter https://twitter.com/SharePoint

SharePoint Fest https://sharepointfest.com/

SPS Events http://www.spsevents.org/

SPS Events Twitter https://twitter.com/SPS_Events

Mark Kashman Twitter https://twitter.com/mkashman

Chris McNulty Twitter https://twitter.com/cmcnulty2000

Richard Harrison LinkedIn

Zack Rosenfield Twitter https://twitter.com/Zrosenfield

 

Upcoming Events:

Microsoft Ignite, September 24-28, 2018

Office and SharePoint LIVE! 360, December 2-7, 2018

 

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