It is the sauce of awesome to read about a little mixing up of CPU brands that make up the gooey insides of Azure! I'm gonna offer free shaves of legs, backs, armpits, and toes so people look like human seals when we all pile into cheerleader outfits to wave AMD pom-poms around. It'll be just like a middle school football game! Hmm, I need to stock up on shaving cream though. I wonder of you can get industrial sized cans of it from Costco. They sell those hot dogs there for like $1.50 so they should sell huge shaving cream cans too.
I think the title is misleading, it should mention that Microsoft has giving customers the option to use AMD Epyc CPU in Azure VM. For a second I thought Microsoft was going into Server Hardware business.
"The Azure Platform is supported by a growing network of Microsoft-managed datacenters." (From the Azure website.) I think that this announcement does refer to the Microsoft cloud services.
Microsoft is already in "server hardware" as they are a part of the "Open Compute Project", a joint effort by several huge companies (like Facebook) to create & use commodity-level ("open source") hardware (and hardware design) to run their data centers. That's already mentioned in the article. They simply aren't selling retail versions of their hardware designs that they use in their OCP data centers.
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PeachNCream - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
It is the sauce of awesome to read about a little mixing up of CPU brands that make up the gooey insides of Azure! I'm gonna offer free shaves of legs, backs, armpits, and toes so people look like human seals when we all pile into cheerleader outfits to wave AMD pom-poms around. It'll be just like a middle school football game! Hmm, I need to stock up on shaving cream though. I wonder of you can get industrial sized cans of it from Costco. They sell those hot dogs there for like $1.50 so they should sell huge shaving cream cans too.lilmoe - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
wtf?Bateluer - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Wha? Did he just hit the autocomplete predict button on his phone for a paragraph?PeachNCream - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Don't tell me Costco raised the price of their hot dogs! That was the only reason why I even went there in the first place.(>.<)
rsandru - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Now thanks to you I can't get this group armpit shaving image out of my head...admnor - Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - link
This Is What Happens When You Let Your Id Access Your Keyboard Directly.HStewart - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
I think the title is misleading, it should mention that Microsoft has giving customers the option to use AMD Epyc CPU in Azure VM. For a second I thought Microsoft was going into Server Hardware business.ET - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
"The Azure Platform is supported by a growing network of Microsoft-managed datacenters." (From the Azure website.) I think that this announcement does refer to the Microsoft cloud services.romrunning - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Microsoft is already in "server hardware" as they are a part of the "Open Compute Project", a joint effort by several huge companies (like Facebook) to create & use commodity-level ("open source") hardware (and hardware design) to run their data centers. That's already mentioned in the article. They simply aren't selling retail versions of their hardware designs that they use in their OCP data centers.SkiBum1207 - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
What part of "Azure" and "VM" suggest that they are going into server hardware?Literally both of those are the anthesis of bare metal.
Pinn - Tuesday, December 5, 2017 - link
Dat hand pic.Lord of the Bored - Wednesday, December 6, 2017 - link
It truly is a fantastic hand job that processor is getting.