Microsoft’s new server design aims to make cloud infrastructure cheaper
Seattle — Microsoft is offering up a new server design that it hopes will influence the rest of the data-centre industry — a move that keeps pressure on hardware vendors such as Hewlett Packard Enterprise to lower the price of cloud infrastructure. An earlier design by Microsoft now accounts for 90% of the company’s data centre server purchases, underscoring just how far it has moved in favour of its own specifications, often manufactured by commodity server vendors. The new design will be submitted to the open source Open Compute Project for others to work on and use, while Microsoft itself plans to deploy it in data centres by the middle of next year, said Kushagra Vaid, a Microsoft GM for the group that engineers the company’s cloud hardware. It is intended to enable companies to deploy a wide variety of applications and can use different international power standards without having to alter the hardware, he said. The goal is to ease cloud deployments, as well as collaboration on...
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