Microsoft data center technician salary

microsoft data center technician salary

Microsoft uses Containers (called ITPACs) to build out its data centers. These Containers are Shipping Containers fitted with all the necessary climate control, networking, server racks and other hardware necessary to be a “mini” data center all in one.

The following is an excerpt from Office 365 For IT Pros written by a group of experienced MVPs led by industry expert Tony Redmond. It is a comprehensive (+1,000 page) must have eBook for any Office 365 admin and the only guide constantly refreshed to remain current with Microsoft’s stream of updates. The eBook is available in EPUB, PDF, and Kindle versions.

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This is the first post in our Unpacking Office 365 series. You can find the other posts in the series below:

• How To Navigate Constant Updates Like a Pro
• How to Expose Your End Users to New Features
• Which License Model is Right for You?
• Where Microsoft 365 Fits In

Office 365 tenants share a single large logical infrastructure composed of hundreds of thousands of servers spread across multiple Microsoft data centers. Figure 1-1 shows the Office 365 data center deployment in early 2018. By its very nature, this overview is incomplete as it does not show some of the infrastructure that is under development.

In addition, it does not convey the deep investment made to create “edge” network termination points set up by Microsoft to bring user traffic quickly into Office 365 from all around the world or the internal network that transports Office 365 tenant data between the data centers.

Microsoft organizes the Office 365 data centers into fourteen regions. The data center region selected to host the data for new tenants is based on the country (location) selected by the tenant. Since the launch of Office 365 in 2011, Microsoft has gradually built out the Office 365 data center infrastructure with the intention of keeping data as local as possible (“in-geo data residency”) to accommodate customer choice and satisfy local regulations.

Where Office 365 once concentrated service delivery from larger data center regions such as Western Europe (with data centers in Ireland, Finland, Austria, and the Netherlands), localized service is now available in individual countries like France, Germany, and the U.K. The same is true in Asia-Pacific, where Office 365 services come from data centers in Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, and China.

Apart from the ability to serve large customer populations, natural and economic advantages such as ambient temperature (to reduce the need for cooling) or availability of cheap hydro power influence data center placement. Obviously, security is of prime concern and Microsoft pays great attention to the physical security of the buildings (you will not find large signs proclaiming Office 365 or Microsoft anywhere) as well as cybersecurity for the data contained within the buildings.