Businesses with large data centers stand to net big savings in capital, power, deployment and maintenance costs if they follow server blueprints being made public by Microsoft
From Networkworld:
From Networkworld:
The company plans to open-source a cloud server design that it says uses 15% less power than traditional enterprise servers and a 40% cost savings vs. those commercial alternatives.Microsoft to reveal data-center server designs that save cash
The company says today that it is joining the Open Compute Project Foundation (OCP) and revealing specs and documentation for Microsoft’s most advanced data-center hardware that supports its Windows Azure, Office 365 and Bing cloud services.
