Posted on 09/17/2015 9:16:56 PM PDT by dayglored
Redmond reveals Azure Cloud Switch, its in-house software-defined networking OS
Sitting down? Nothing in your mouth?
Microsoft has developed its own Linux distribution. And Azure runs it to do networking.
Redmond's revealed that it's built something called Azure Cloud Switch (ACS), describing it as “a cross-platform modular operating system for data center networking built on Linux” and “our foray into building our own software for running network devices like switches.”
Kamala Subramanian, Redmond's principal architect for Azure Networking, writes that: “At Microsoft, we believe there are many excellent switch hardware platforms available on the market, with healthy competition between many vendors driving innovation, speed increases, and cost reductions.”
(Translation: Microsoft partners, we mean you no harm.)
“However, what the cloud and enterprise networks find challenging is integrating the radically different software running on each different type of switch into a cloud-wide network management platform. Ideally, we would like all the benefits of the features we have implemented and the bugs we have fixed to stay with us, even as we ride the tide of newer switch hardware innovation.”
(Translation: Software-defined networking (SDN) is a very fine idea.)
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Subramaniam's post ends by letting us know: “We’re talking about ACS publicly as we believe this approach of disaggregating the switch software from the switch hardware will continue to be a growing trend in the networking industry and we would like to contribute our insights and experiences of this journey starting here.”
That experience clearly includes Linux, not Windows, as the path to SDN.
(Excerpt) Read more at theregister.co.uk ...
If you didn’t understand the buzz words I threw out don’t worry about it
But getting up so worked up about Microsoft using this is like getting worked up about Microsoft having Cisco routers that run Cisco IOS or NX-OS or Juniper routers that run junos..
Trust me Microsoft does not make their own damn backbone switches and routers.. nor does it make the operating systems those switches and routers utilize
:-)
The same.
Why is working on the X-box a death sentence?
It’s a huge success by any measure.
They could always call it ‘Xenix’.
Like I would ever trust linux from Microsquish.
I, for one, am not suprised at all.
LOL
How much operating system work is going on, on the Xbox?
Right now?
Tons.
Microsoft is busy creating an environment we here you can move from the desktop to the laptop to the X-box to your cellphone and back again with minimal interruption of your activities.
Sure... what's 35 years between friends? Of course, that would probably stir up the SCO hornets nest again...
Great.
So I can expect the same sort of lethargic performance I’ve been living with since VMS, on my Xbox?
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