SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. 9 (Xinhua) — Microsoft announced Monday the acquisition of startup Fungible to deliver “multi-DPU (data processing unit) solutions, network innovation and hardware system improvements.”
“Fungible’s technologies help enable high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scalable data center infrastructure with reliability and security,” Girish Bablani, corporate vice president of Microsoft’s Azure Core division, wrote in a blog post.
“Today’s announcement further signals Microsoft’s commitment to long-term differentiated investment in our data center infrastructure, which enhances our broad range of technologies and offerings, including offloading, improving latency, increasing data center server density, optimizing energy efficiency and cost reduction,” he added.
The Fungible team will join Microsoft’s data center infrastructure engineering teams, according to Bablani.
“We are proud to be part of a company that shares Fungible’s vision and will use the Fungible DPU and software to enhance its storage and networking offerings,” Fungible said in a statement.
This is the second data center acquisition in recent months for Microsoft, following the purchase of high-speed fiber startup Lumenisity in December, according to a report by TechCrunch. Enditem
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