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Microsoft Does The Math On Azure Datacenter Switch Failures

May 12, 2021 Timothy Prickett Morgan 3

As supercomputer centers have long known and as hyperscalers and cloud builders eventually learned, the larger the cluster, the greater the chance that one of the many components in the system will fail at any particular time. …

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