Project Natick was a successful proof-of-concept, but now it's time for Microsoft to move on. Corp-speak for a failure. If it was good, you would not stop it (

Project Natick was a successful proof-of-concept, but now it's time for Microsoft to move on. Corp-speak for a failure. If it was good, you would not stop it (after only 2 years) or not go on with the project in a visible way. What I guess is that the thing was ok in terms of not being a giant disaster but it did not have any added value compared to a land based équivalent and the external factors costs like maintenance on the server, operating and monitoring the container, ... were terrible compared to a normal datacenter.