Microsoft is opening up the server and rack designs that power its vast online platforms and sharing them with the world.
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“We came to the conclusion that by sharing these hardware innovations, it will help us accelerate the growth of cloud computing,” said Kushagra Vaid, General Manager of Cloud Server Engineering for Microsoft. “This will directly factor into products for enterprise and private clouds. It’s a virtuous cycle in which we create a consistent experience across all three clouds.”
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Microsoft’s contributions to OCP will include hardware specifications, design collateral (CAD and Gerber files), and system management source code for Microsoft’s cloud server designs, which will also be posted to the open source code repository GitHub.
Translated - We know our stuff runs on our servers, so if you use our servers you will probably buy our stuff. Still it's an interesting move on Microsoft's part. At datacenterknowledge.com the speculation is that this is being driven the ongoing desire to overtake Amazon Web Services as the number one cloud provider. Personally I think that would have happened anyway but maybe this accelerates the process.
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