MTCs partnering with Microsoft Global Foundation Services

Since the massive Chicago datacenter came online, its has gotten a LOT of attention due to its being built to use of shipping containers filled with servers rather than traditional racks, and the lower PUE it yields.  The Chicago MTC has partnered up with GFS (the team that runs those datacenters) to do briefings for our customers on "moving to the cloud", building the bridge from traditional datacenter to cloud based services, and the choice you get when you use Microsoft platform of on-premesis vs. cloud-based.

Here's a ton of info on Microsoft Global Foundation Services (GFS)

Also wanted to share two links:  a Burton / Gartner arcticle (if you have rights) on making the transition from traditional datacenter to private cloud, and also a link to the GFS team blog