(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Microsoft (www.microsoft.com) is reportedly building a Brazil data center to support the company’s software plus services strategy.
According to Business News Americas, Microsoft Latin America president Hernán Rincón said the center will be ready in Q4 at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans.
Microsoft Latin America business productivity manager Juan Carlos Puente told BNamericas that the facility host Microsoft’s online services for Brazil, Chile, Puerto Rico, Mexico and Colombia, including Exchange Server, Sharepoint, Communications Server and Live Meeting, as well as Office, Excel and Powerpoint. They are scheduled to launch in the second quarter of 2010.
The division that builds and operates its data centers, Microsoft Global Foundation Services, however, told Data Center Knowledge that there is no such facility planned at this time, meaning that either the Latin America execs found out about the plans first, or the new data center will be hosted in a third-party facility.
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