Microsoft demonstrates its Linux-based Azure Cloud Switch operating system

Grazed from BulletinLeader.  Author: Watson Dong.

The company is working on building Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), a software which will make it simpler to control hardware which powers cloud-based services.  So it was logical to expect that Microsoft was, in fact, hacking together its own network operating system.

It’s supposed to make it easier for IT pros to manage their networking infrastructure across different types of hardware – important when you’re running a bunch of networks across a bunch of data centers at cloud computing scales…


Microsoft does design its own servers to support Azure, using specs open sourced through the Open Compute Project, the Facebook-led open source hardware and data center design initiative, as the basis. It’s software for running network devices like switches. It is cross-platform in that it will run on hardware from multiple switch vendors, thanks to the Switch Abstraction Interface (SAI) specifications. Microsoft, Under Nadella, is more open than it has ever been before. And they have chosen to build this particular piece of software based on non other than their long-standing platform foe Linux…

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