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Microsoft datacenter architect defects to Amazon

Time: 10:13 EST/15:13 GMT | News Source: | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum

James Hamilton, an architect on Microsoft’s Data Center Futures team, has decided to leave Microsoft for Amazon.com, as TechFlash first reported.

Hamilton is known at Microsoft for his work to popularize the container-model for datacenters. He was a member of Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie’s Live Platform Services development team. Hamilton’s interests included “multi-tenant hosted systems, the management of very large scale systems, massively parallel data management systems, database security, and unstructured data management.” Before joining the Live Core team, Hamilton was the general manager of the Microsoft Exchange Hosted Services team, and before that, SQL Server Architect and leader of the Security and Incubation Team.