Post by Steve Farrelly @ 09:40am 18/06/13 | 16 Comments
During a Q&A at the end though, we asked just what their ambitious Cloud system would mean for the geographically and infrastructure-challenged, like Australia and New Zealand.
"Microsoft has data centres around the world, so Cloud Compute Services are not something that you should think about on a country-by-country basis," explained incubation and prototyping group manager, Jeff Henshaw. "We have deployed our data centres geographically so that they can service the load for categories of countries all around the world.
"So we have some of the best reach of any other company on the planet to be able to make sure that the Cloud Services that we offer are what we consider [to be] ubiquitous and will be available [to] all markets."
It still sounds a bit too good to be true, but the term "ubiquitous" does have us intrigued.
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Posted 10:04am 18/6/13
No Asia Xbox One launch has me worried. Same with PS4's Gaikai. Great features ... if you're in Europe or North America. But we're a pretty small market so can't really expect it.
Posted 10:13am 18/6/13
Posted 10:16am 18/6/13
Obviously you'd tweak it depending on where your users are, but just as a general guide?
Posted 10:58am 18/6/13
Is it coming soon? I still only have "southeast asia" as the closest location in my management console which is singapore iirc.
Posted 11:16am 18/6/13
Posted 11:37am 18/6/13
The day before Xbox One was announced, MS made a tiny announcement about the expansion of Azure into Australia. Though the reasons at the time were for business-related cloud-computing and made no mention of XB1, it made sense when, during the launch, MS stated they were scaling up the server base (15k servers now for the 360, to 300k for XB1).
Then again, the XB1 will be more server-reliant. It'll be interesting to see how developers will use cloud services in games, and whether the servers will hold up to the demand (regardless of where they are located).
Posted 12:27pm 18/6/13
Posted 02:02pm 18/6/13
Posted 02:54pm 18/6/13
If they limit american's to 'only enabled states', what chance do aussies outside of Sydney and Melbourne have?
Did i read this here?
Anyway, Microsoft Confirms Xbox One Will Only Work in 21 States in the US at Launch.
Posted 03:16pm 18/6/13
Posted 03:24pm 18/6/13
Posted 06:34pm 18/6/13
Edit: also with my msdn subscription i get some azure credit to play with
Posted 07:56am 19/6/13
Yeah, its coming soon. I asked Dean at the Azure meetup group, he doesn know any more either.
Posted 08:27am 19/6/13
It is if you want to factor in latency mr microsoft
Posted 08:30am 19/6/13
Rackspace just announced AU pricing for their Sydney DC.
AFAIK the Azure DC announcement was to say it's coming but still ~18 months away.
Posted 09:07am 19/6/13
In any case I find it extremely hard to believe Azure and local servers for Australians are not a big part of the Xbox One's rollout strategy - but of course, Microsoft have surprised everyone before so who knows what will happen.