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Microsoft links Azure with AWS for hyperscale harmony
Amazon cloud gets multicloud networking boost
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Nvidia debuts Spectrum-6 switches to power next-gen AI networking
Microsoft and SpaceXAI join neoclouds among early users
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Microsoft taps 3M’s expanded beam tech to streamline AI infrastructure connectivity
Partnership to reduce data center deployment times… and dust
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Microsoft unveils micro LED innovation to halve data center energy use
Could be cheaper to manufacture and more durable, as it is less sensitive to environmental factors
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Nvidia, Broadcom form group to standardize optical interconnects for next-gen AI clusters
OCI-MSA looks to drive open 'plug-and-play ecosystem’ in the notoriously fierce optics market
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Microsoft reveals next generation Cobalt CPU and Azure Boost
Cobalt 200 approaches
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nEye Systems raises $58m for optical switch technology
Startup has raised $72.5m since founding in 2020
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Microsoft Research details early-stage modular robotics for data centers
Team behind Silica crabs tackles networking maintenance machines
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FDA seeks high-speed direct connections from its data centers to cloud regions
Seeks to connect the FDA's Ashburn data center and White Oak data center to the cloud
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Microsoft to deploy Lumen Private Connectivity Fabric, telco to move to Azure
In network infrastructure and cloud migration project partnership
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Microsoft developing its own networking chip - report
Latest signal the company is looking to reduce its reliance on Nvidia
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Microsoft tests sub-terahertz indoor wireless links for data centers
Technology could complement cabled connections, hyperscale giant says
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Microsoft blames Azure West Europe networking issues on severe weather conditions
Storm cut fiber between two Dutch data centers
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Microsoft Azure outage blamed on WAN router IP change
Has taken steps to stop it happening again
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Microsoft acquires hollow core fiber firm Lumenisity
Cloud companies acquires UK-based optical fiber company
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Microsoft launches private enterprise CDN service
eCDN optimized for company-wide townhall meetings, training videos etc.
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Nokia wins Microsoft Azure data center network switch contract
The companies previously worked together on Sonic
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Intel pitches Infrastructure Processing Unit as new data center DPU
Offloading processing to help out CPUs
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SONiC OS makes data center switches more reliable, Microsoft study finds
One vendor's switches are less reliable than the others, but Microsoft isn't saying which
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Infinera reaches record 30Tbps speeds on MAREA trans-Atlantic submarine cable
Networking company breaks own record on high-capacity cable used by Microsoft and Facebook
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Report: Microsoft is considering Mellanox acquisition
Xilinx was also rumored to be interested
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Microsoft plans $5bn IoT push
Commits to invest the sum over the next four years.
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Microsoft Azure launches ‘Accelerated Networking’
Lower latency and CPU utilization for virtual machines, thanks to FPGA-based network interface cards
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Microsoft Azure to support full VMware stack on its own hardware
Promising “a frictionless path to Azure”
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NTT gets Myanmar network service license, offers Internet to enterprises
Myanmar takes another tentative step towards a digital transformation
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OCP Summit: Microsoft offers SONIC network software
Linux-based software creates an open source network ecosystem
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Red Hat Linux is coming to the Azure cloud
Microsoft partners with the open source software specialist
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Windows Server 2003 finally bites the dust
Microsoft’s popular server OS will get no more support