Microsoft recruits EMC for storage push
C|Net | at | by Mike
EMC is joining forces with Microsoft to attack the lower reaches of the network-attached storage market. Next quarter, the storage giant will release a product that combines its Clariion disc array with an Intel-based server and Microsoft's Windows operating system, EMC announced Monday.
The move is a boost to Microsoft's two-year-old effort to crack a way into the storage business. EMC is following industry heavyweights Hewlett-Packard and Dell Computer into the burgeoning Windows-based storage market.
"We are very committed to making sure our technologies are more and more important every year in storage," Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer told those attending the EMC Technology Summit, which takes place this week at the Mandalay Bay Convention Center here. "We think we are going to win a lot of NAS (network-attached storage) business together."