Microsoft has announced the acquisition of Fungible, a provider of composable infrastructure with a focus on enhancing networking and storage performance in data centres with high-efficiency, low-power data processing units. Fungible is a US-based technology business (DPUs).

 

According to the company, Fungible's technologies will make it possible to build a reliable and secure high-performance, scalable, disaggregated, scaled-out data 

centre architecture.

 

"The announcement further signals Microsoft's commitment to long-term differentiated investments in our data centre infrastructure, which enhances our broad range of technologies and offerings including offloading, improving latency, increasing data centre server density, optimizing energy efficiency and reducing costs," by microsoft.

 

The business also stated that the Fungible team will become a part of Microsoft's engineering teams for data centre infrastructure and will concentrate on offering 

numerous DPU solutions, network innovation, and hardware system enhancements.

 

"We are proud to be part of a company that shares Fungible's vision and will leverage the Fungible DPU and software to enhance its storage and networking offerings. We would like to thank our loyal employees for their dedication and hard work over these last seven years and our customers, partners, and investors for their belief in and support of our technology," said Fungible.

 

The most critical problem in scale-out data centres, inefficient execution of data-centric calculations within server nodes, was addressed by the development of the 

Fungible DPU in 2016.