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Supporting Student Notes:

As cloud scale applications become more prevalent and evolve in the datacenter the infrastructure needs change too.
Attributes like scale, performance and lifecycle require more flexibility than a traditional server can deliver efficiently.
What M-Series does is separate the CPU and memory complex from the other subsystems that would make up a
traditional server. Thus, when matching a particular application’s requirements to server infrastructure, M-Series allows
for the independent scaling of all of the subsystems. No longer does the need for a few more cores and GB’s of memory
dictate the need to duplicate the entire traditional server with more power supplies, more fans, more raid controllers, more
network adapters, etc. And the same holds true for upgrading subsystems. The lifecycle of an Ethernet adapter is not
the same as a RAID controller and not the same as a CPU. M-Series frees customers from the constraints.