| Title | How a Battery Cut Microsoft Datacenter Costs by a Quarter | |
| Date | Tuesday October 13 2015, @02:45AM | |
| Author | janrinok | |
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| from the 'its-not-about-the-money,-money,-money' dept. | ||
In yet another example of how distributed systems sometimes work better than centralized ones, the hardware engineers at Microsoft have come up with a new battery-backed power supply for their homegrown servers that allows for massive – and expensive – battery rooms to be eliminated from the cloud giant's datacenters.
The new power supply, which Microsoft calls the Local Energy Storage (LES) unit, was designed as part of the Open Cloud Server hyperscale system that the company donated to the Open Compute Project last year and updated last October with some significant tweaks. In the spirit of openness that might seem a bit strange coming from Microsoft, the new LES specification is being opened up through the Open Compute community as well.
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With the LES power supply-battery combination, Microsoft is making its engineering available to anyone, and it is explaining to people just how much more efficiently they can run their datacenters with this subtle shift from massive central batteries to distributed small ones. It is also doing a little engineering, too.
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