{"id":108,"date":"2005-05-29T20:48:00","date_gmt":"2005-05-29T20:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwilson.me.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/how-microsoft-does-it.htm"},"modified":"2007-07-25T21:31:19","modified_gmt":"2007-07-25T20:31:19","slug":"how-microsoft-does-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/2005\/05\/how-microsoft-does-it.htm","title":{"rendered":"How Microsoft does IT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--111739973438330005--><a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/itshowcase\/\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Microsoft IT Showcase\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.markwilson.co.uk\/blog\/images\/itshowcase.jpg?w=700&#038;ssl=1\" \/><\/a>I was at a presentation last week where some interesting statistics were given about Microsoft&#8217;s own IT operations:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>300,000 devices for 92,000 users in 89 countries.<\/li>\n<li>7,000,000 remote connections per month.<\/li>\n<li>3,000,000 internal e-mails per day.<\/li>\n<li>100,000 e-mail accounts with 99.99% mailbox availability.<\/li>\n<li>1.7Tb SAP database (running on Microsoft SQL Server).<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now who says that Microsoft software doesn&#8217;t scale to enterprise levels? 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