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Microsoft cloud server designs for Facebook's Open Compute Project |
January 28, 2014
Microsoft is contributing the designs of the cloud servers that run some of its services like Bing and Windows Azure to the Open Compute Project, in a bid to help standardize and reduce hardware costs.The Redmond, Washington, tech company is also contributing system management source code to the project. It said it aimed to create an open source software community in the Open Compute Project.By promoting its hardware specification in the data center, Microsoft could be looking for an opportunity for its server software as against Linux which has been the favorite of many Web companies.”My belief is that they are trying to have a voice in a community that they haven’t had a voice before,” said Patrick Moorhead, founder and president of research firm Moor Insights & Strategy. The Open Compute Project is largely geared towards open source and doing things yourself, which goes against Microsoft’s business model of proprietary software and paid services, he said.To read this article in full or to leave a comment, please click here
Link: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2091960/microsoft-cloud-server-designs-for-facebooks-open-compute-project.html#tk.rss_all
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