The world is moving towards a future of cloud based computing.

At Microsoft, we've been building infrastructure really

to enable people to use our services whenever they need it.

The global infrastructure that we've built out supports over 200

services, with over a billion customers.

We tend to go like 10X every 4 or

5 years in terms of the scale at which we grow.

A big part of our story now and our focus is really around

how do we simplify the whole supply chain so that we can respond quickly

to the fast changing business that we're in?

Microsoft Project Olympus is really a culmination of all of these

different requirements that we've evolved to drive a standard platform

that we can deploy at scale.

>> With Project Olympus we've really designed a modular and

flexible infrastructure that allows for a wide range applications.

We've designed for larger CPUs and higher wattage.

And we've even designed to allow the expansion with JBOD

capabilities to expand the overall

number of workloads that we can run in these environments.

We've taken a lot of learnings at running hyper scale data centers and

really used that in the design of Project Olympus.

The modularity and flexibility of the system allows us to build

solutions that can deliver, compute, storage, networking capabilities.

Being able to provide that as Microsoft in the open community

allows everyone in the ecosystem to take advantage of it.

It's been really exciting to work with the OCP community.

Their enthusiasm in helping us design and

develop, it's been a great collaboration and

it's allowed us to bring a solution to market much, much quicker.

>> Intel has been involved in the OCP

community from the very beginning.

As we transition to our next generation Intel Xeon processors

code named Skylake, we see the opportunity to really take

platforms like Project Olympus and

the other investments that we made in OCP, and see real adoption.

Not just in the hyper-scale arena, but across many different customer

types from to telco to enterprise end users in general.

This was really an effort to create a universal motherboard and

set of building blocks that would enable many customers

to deploy this project in their environment beyond just Microsoft.

It enables customers to take advantage of performance efficiency

and cost effectiveness.

So it really speeds tech adoption not just for

the biggest players industries but for

enterprises or other cloud service providers that want to follow suit.

>> OCP really wants us to promote hardware innovation and

encourage choice.

And doing both at the same time is very difficult.

I think Project Olympus has a really unique way of addressing both

the imperative for innovation, and the urgent need for choice.

It allows the flexibility and key components to tune each system for

the particular workload that it's going to run, whether it's machine

intelligence all the way down to something as prosaic as email.

Microsoft is one of the leaders in OCP and

it sits in a unique position where it's both a huge user

of OCP systems as well as a provider of technology itself.

By working with Microsoft, we can leverage the understanding Microsoft

has on both sides of that equation to produce better CPU solutions.

>> Microsoft saw the needs of this open sourced community.

They decided that they would design a highly efficient,

scalable rack architecture.

And they would deliver it as a set of building blocks to the industry

through Open Compute Project.

The Olympus engineers recognized the need to retain emissions,

safety, and regulatory compliance.

They have a very flexible AC input system into the power.

And that flexibility allows that rack architecture to be installed in

virtually anyone's data center around the world regardless

of the power infrastructure that they already have in place.

Project Olympus is gonna be a fantastic hardware platform for

driving new usages.

Because it's completely open source

we now have a community that has access to the complete design files.

We'll be able to innovate on top of those design files, and

create new products, new IOs that works with project Olympus and

they'll be able to tackle new use cases that they have.

>> Project Olympus is the most flexible, modular,

hardware architecture that we've designed and

we're excited to share that with the ecosystem of OCP.

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