Microsoft tweaks its server specs as part of Open Compute Project

By Barb Darrow

Summary:
Microsoft, a software power, wants to have a greater say in how data center hardware is designed. And now it’s even got some hardware partners in this effort.

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In January, Microsoft came out with initial server specifications, building on its experience running big-time data centers, as it joined the Open Compute Project. The idea was to share its experience running those big facilities with hardware makers so they could build the equipment Microsoft and potentially other big tech providers, needs to run infrastructure efficiently.
Now it’s tweaked some of those design specifications with its Open CloudServer v2 recommendations which it’s announcing at the Open Compute Project’s  European Summit
In a blog post, Kushagra Vaid, GM of server engineering for Microsoft’s cloud and enterprise group, wrote that improvements include:

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