The acquisition provides Microsoft with hardware and software technologies geared primarily at boosting data center storage and networking performance, including high-speed NVMe-over-TCP storage clustering technology, for an undisclosed sum.
Microsoft announced the acquisition of Fungible, a developer of composable infrastructure based on the company’s DPU hardware for boosting data center network and storage performance.
The deal’s terms were not disclosed.
Fungible, founded in 2015 by Pradeep Sindhu, then co-founder and chief scientist at Juniper Networks, and Bertrand Serlet, has funded over $300 million, including a $200 million Series C financing sponsored by SoftBank Vision Fund in 2019.
Microsoft announced the acquisition of Fungible, a developer of composable infrastructure based on the company’s DPU hardware for boosting data center network and storage performance.
The deal’s terms were not disclosed.
Fungible, founded in 2015 by Pradeep Sindhu, then co-founder and chief scientist at Juniper Networks, and Bertrand Serlet, has funded over $300 million, including a $200 million Series C financing sponsored by SoftBank Vision Fund in 2019.
The Fungible DPU is a microprocessor designed to offload storage and networking services from the CPU, as well as software to manage the control plane and enable the creation of a high-performance data fabric.
Fungible also develops technologies for developing the Fungible Storage Cluster, an all-flash NVMe-over-TCP disaggregated storage cluster that the business says overcomes legacy limits to give best-in-class performance at scale as well as superior power utilization.
In a blog post written by Girish Bablani, corporate vice president for Azure Core, Microsoft stated that the Fungible team will become part of Microsoft’s data center infrastructure division.
