On Feb. 24, Rick Rashid, senior vice president of Microsoft Research, announced a new research organization called Cloud Computing Futures (CCF), focused on reducing the operational costs of data centers and increasing their adaptability and resilience to failure. The group, led by Dan Reed, director of Scalable and Multicore Systems, will strive to lower hardware costs, power consumption, and the environmental impact of such facilities. Reed recently found time to discuss the new venture.
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