Microsoft is building cloud hosting data centers all over the place, but if you don’t want to share you data with other tenants or want more control over your data, then this is good news for you:
WASHINGTON — July 12, 2010 — During its annual Worldwide Partner Conference, top executives from Microsoft Corp. talked with more than 14,000 attendees about the impact of cloud computing and the myriad of ways it will enable partners to deliver compelling new services to their customers. The company made several announcements, including the introduction of the Windows Azure platform appliance, the first turnkey cloud services platform for deployment in customer and service provider datacenters. Dell Inc., eBay Inc., Fujitsu Ltd. and HP are early adopters of a limited production release of the appliance.
Quote from their press release.
Find more informatie here: http://www.microsoft.com/windowsazure/appliance/
It is based on dedicated hardware build by partners like Dell, Fujitsu and HP.