Microsoft looks beyond Windows with datacenter plan
InfoWorld | at | by Mike
Microsoft hopes its initiative for simplifying the management of datacenters will play with Unix and Linux as well as with Windows. The software maker plans to open up its nascent architecture for datacenters, called SDM (system definition model), so that servers running operating systems other than Windows can be part of a datacenter that employs the Microsoft technology.
Microsoft has only just started its initiative for simplifying the management of datacenters, following similar initiatives from IBM, Sun Microsystems, and Hewlett-Packard. The company unveiled SDM as part of its Dynamic Systems Initiative (DSI) in March. Earlier this month, at its Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) in New Orleans, Microsoft added yet another acronym to the list: DDC, for dynamic data center.