Microsoft’s Linux-based OS: Azure Cloud Switch
- By NetFire
- Tags: Azure Cloud Switch, data centers, Linux, Microsoft
- Date: September 24, 2015
Microsoft has made recent strides in software-defined networking (SDN), releasing a Linux-based open source OS – Azure Cloud Switch (ACS). Though Microsoft is the world’s largest proprietary software company, they have long used open source software. For several years, Microsoft was the fifth largest contributor to the Linux kernel; and at least one-quarter of the […]