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It is the operating system for use in data centers Azure
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Redmond рассказал the creation of a product called Azure Cloud Switch or ACS. Under the unremarkable name hides a cross-platform modular operating system for data centers. It is a Linux distribution for use in the switch.

Post Online Azure written language is not entirely incomprehensible for ordinary people. Kamala Subramanian, chief architect of the computer network of Azure, says that Microsoft believes in the existence on the market a large number of hardware platforms, network switches, and that a healthy competition between producers leads to innovation, increase the speed and reduce the cost. Apparently, behind this corporate dablspikom скрывается Warning partners: we are not going to fight with you.

Microsoft wants to build a software-configurable network, as adapted "zoo" of equipment from different vendors with different OSes difficult. It was difficult to find a suitable and software to create such a decision - is that it has to carry out tasks and allows easy maintenance and revision.

Operating system ACS uses Switch Abstraction Inteface (SAI), a product of the project OpenCompute, through API, which can be programmed Special purpose integrated circuits (ASIC) in the network devices.

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Next record details the functions of the new product. But the main thing is not explained why in Microsoft opted for the creation of distributions of Linux? Probably say the complexity of the ecosystem network switches. ACS runs on four switches manufacturers ASIC (Mellanox, Broadcom, Cavium and Barefoot), in the sixth embodiment SAI (Broadcom, Dell, Mellanox, Cavium, Barefoot and Metaswitch) and three stacks of applications (Microsoft, Dell and Metaswitch). The post ends with certainty that an approach to separate software application switches from the "iron" will be part of a trend in the networking industry.

Created Linux distribution will be used only within the company, it will not sell. But curious about the very fact that Microsoft decided not to undertake any special version of Windows, and to entrust critical of the free version of the operating system. This is not the first step in relation to the open of operating systems from Microsoft post-Satya Nadella balmerovskoy era. Last year, the head of the company literally said , that Microsoft loves Linux, and reinforced said support CoreOS, an operating system based on Linux kernel to create clusters.

Source: geektimes.ru/post/262732/