Jeff Wilson of Agnostic Computing comments:
On Tuesday Microsoft surprised me by announcing an open switching/networking plan in partnership with Mellanox and as part of the Open Compute initiative.
Wait, what?
Microsoft’s building a switch?
An interesting look at Microsoft and the future of open networking. I think the move towards and OCP reference switch has less to do with the hardware and more with Microsoft improving their network management capabilities.
Read more at: Microsoft’s commitment to open initiatives & the riddle of whitebox networking
