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