Software and services firm looks to reduce reliance on power grids     



From V3:

Microsoft has outlined its vision for the future of cloud infrastructure, suggesting in-rack power supplies and better fail-safe solutions to reduce reliance on human input in data centres.

The company's general manager of data centre services Christian Belady said it was no longer possible for people to scale with their cloud infrastructure, and that human intervention should be reduced as much as possible as the cloud industry continues to boom.

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