Microsoft teams up with SpaceX to launch Azure Space to bring cloud computing into the final frontie

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Space.com By Chelsea Gohd 10/21/2020

Microsoft teams up with SpaceX to launch Azure Space to bring cloud computing into the final frontier

Microsoft has teamed up with SpaceX and SES to launch the tech giant's new cloud computing business for space

Azure Space, Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure, aims to offer mobile cloud computing data centers that can deploy anywhere. For the emerging business, Microsoft has called upon SpaceX's  Starlink internet satellites and expanded its agreement with satellite company SES for Azure Space.

Microsoft will have access to theStarlink broadband network (SpaceX has launched over 800 of the satellites so far) for the company's new "Azure Modular Datacenter" (MDC), which is a datacenter, a contained unit that can be deployed anywhere, even "off the grid," creating remote connectivity access or supporting existing access.

"Space has been powering the world for a long time and together with our partners at Microsoft were excited to democratize space for all industries to enable new options for enterprises around connectivity and compute," Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure Global said in a video released by Microsoft..

More: https://www.space.com/microsoft-launches-azure-space-cloud-computing

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Microsoft And SpaceX: The Final Frontier For Cloud Computing

Forbes by Tom Taulli 10/21/2020

https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomtaulli/2020/10/21/microsoft-and-spacex-the-final-frontier-for-cloud-computing/#77f2611e334e

In about 20 years or so, cloud computing has become one of the most important technologies on the planet. But in the years ahead, the cloud may venture into outer space.

This week Microsoft and SpaceX announced a new partnership called Azure Space. It will be a highly sophisticated Internet system based on network of thousands of satellites.  To pull this off, Microsoft has created the Azure Modular Datacenter, which can move around and operate in harsh environments. So far, the Azure Space platform is in the testing phase.

Yet SpaceX is not the only partner. Microsoft has also entered an agreement with SES, which is a European satellite firm. It is the developer of the 03b system, which is larger than SpaceX’s and travels farther from the earth.

“The recent interest in space-based communications comes on the heels of several LEO-based (Low Earth Orbit) SATCOM (Satellite Communications) efforts from the likes of SpaceX, OneWeb and Kuiper,” said Jim Poole, who is the Equinix Vice President of Business Development. “For decades, most SATCOM services were GEO-based (Geosynchronous) systems, orbiting ~35,000km above the Earth. GEO SATCOMs were preferred because one satellite can cover most of a continent and the orbits are perpetual as their is no decay. But the downside of GEO SATCOMs is high latency, relatively low throughput and a dependency on very large ground antenna. By comparison, the LEO-based satellites orbit only 500K-2,000km from the Earth, enabling lower latency, higher throughput and small, easily sited antenna. Operators must compensate for coverage by deploying more satellites, but technological improvements have lowered the cost to build and deploy satellites making LEO-based SATCOMs affordable for mass market applications, such as for Internet access. LEO SATCOMs have the advantage of ubiquitous coverage, with less dependency on a dense ground network at the point of consumption. The applications are all the same ones you might consume in a large metropolitan area, with fiber to the home and high-bandwidth access to clouds and content, but delivered anywhere in the world. Analysts estimate that roughly 59% of the global population has access to the Internet. LEO SATCOMs can effectively bring that coverage to near 100%.”

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Space.com By Chelsea Gohd 10/21/2020

Microsoft teams up with SpaceX to launch Azure Space to bring cloud computing into the final frontier

Microsoft has teamed up with SpaceX and SES to launch the tech giant's new cloud computing business for space

Azure Space, Microsoft's cloud computing platform Azure, aims to offer mobile cloud computing data centers that can deploy anywhere. For the emerging business, Microsoft has called upon SpaceX's  Starlink internet satellites and expanded its agreement with satellite company SES for Azure Space.

Microsoft will have access to theStarlink broadband network (SpaceX has launched over 800 of the satellites so far) for the company's new "Azure Modular Datacenter" (MDC), which is a datacenter, a contained unit that can be deployed anywhere, even "off the grid," creating remote connectivity access or supporting existing access.

"Space has been powering the world for a long time and together with our partners at Microsoft were excited to democratize space for all industries to enable new options for enterprises around connectivity and compute," Tom Keane, corporate vice president for Azure Global said in a video released by Microsoft..

More: https://www.space.com/microsoft-launches-azure-space-cloud-computing

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