{"id":1283,"date":"2016-10-31T18:32:52","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:32:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rsoftsolution.com\/blog\/microsoft-open-sources-its-next-gen-cloud-hardware-design.html"},"modified":"2016-10-31T18:32:52","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T18:32:52","slug":"microsoft-open-sources-its-next-gen-cloud-hardware-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rbsitsoftwaresolution.in\/blog\/microsoft-open-sources-its-next-gen-cloud-hardware-design.html","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft open sources its next-gen cloud hardware design"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Microsoft today open sourced its next-gen hyperscale cloud hardware design and contributed it to the Open Compute Project<\/a>\u00a0(OCP). Microsoft joined the OCP, which also includes Facebook, Google, Intel, IBM, Rackspace and many other cloud vendors, back in 2014. Over the last two years,\u00a0it already contributed a number of server, networking and data center designs.<\/p>\n

With this new contribution, Project Olympus<\/a>, it\u2019s taking a slightly different approach to open source hardware, however. Instead of contributing designs that are already finalized, which is the traditional approach to open sourcing this kind of work, the Project Olympus designs aren\u2019t production-ready yet. The idea here is to ensure that the community can actually collaborate in the design process.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019ve learned a tremendous amount from our deep collaboration with the OCP Foundation and the open source community over the past few years,\u201d Azure Hardware Infrastructure GM Kushagra Vaid writes in today\u2019s announcement. \u201cAn important realization is that open source hardware development is currently not as agile and iterative as open source software.\u201d By giving the community early access to the designs, Microsoft hopes it can \u201cdecrease the time to market for new product offerings and lower investment costs.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Project Olympus designs include a new motherboard<\/a> and high-availability\u00a0power\u00a0supply with included batteries, a server chassis with a high-density storage expansion, and a new power distribution unit for the server racks that hold these (or other) machines<\/a>. The\u00a0designs are meant to be modular to give potential customers the ability to use them inside their own existing data center configurations.<\/p>\n

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\u201cMicrosoft is opening the door to a new era of open source hardware development. Project Olympus, the re-imagined collaboration model and the way they\u2019re bringing it to market, is unprecedented in the history of OCP and open source datacenter hardware,\u201d said Bill Carter, the Chief Technology Officer of the Open Compute Project Foundation, in a statement today.<\/p>\n

Microsoft, just like Facebook and other OCP members, is making extensive use of\u00a0OCP hardware in its own data centers. Microsoft says over 90 percent of\u00a0the servers it purchases are based on OCP-contributed specifications. At Facebook<\/a>, which incubated this project, virtually all of the servers are Open Compute machines.\u00a0Google also joined the OCP<\/a> earlier this year,\u00a0but market leader Amazon \u2014 a company that isn\u2019t exactly known for its open source work to begin with \u2014 remains a no-show.<\/p>\n

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