It's Microsoft vs. the professors with competing data center architectures

Researchers from Microsoft and the University of California at San Diego have come up with divergent schemes to address shortcomings of data center architectures, particularly management and configuration burdens, and to promote the efficient use of virtual machines. The two groups presented their findings at the SIGCOMM 2009 conference this week in Barcelona. The Microsoft team sought high performance for all traffic regardless of demand, while the UCSD team focused on allowing the free migration of VMs, minimal configuration when adding new hosts to the network and quickly addressing failures.

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