|
Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the
worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and
businesses realize their full potential.
see also:-
Microsoft
- editor mentions on STORAGEsearch.com
- editor's comments:- in January 2008 - Microsoft announced its offer to buy
Norwegian storage search ISV - Fast Search & Transfer ASA - for $1.2B.
When
you think of searching the web - the #1 brand which comes to mind is
Google. But even though
Google has been marketing storage search appliances for over 5 years only
10,000 or so companies were actually using them as recently as last October.
Microsoft's acquisition in this market at 42% above the closing price of the
shares last Friday - signals that Microsoft regards this as a much bigger
potential market than it has been until now.
Or - if you are feeling
cynical - maybe it's just a move that will slow down and kill off the whole
segment for a couple of years. Especially if Microsoft embeds free search into
its OS.
|
|
Squeak!
- the Fastest Solid State Disks
Speed isn't everything, and
it comes at a price. |
But if you do
need the speediest SSD
then wading through the web sites of over 63 current
SSD oems to find a suitable
candidate slows you down.
And the SSD search problem will get even
worse. |
 | |
I predict
there will be over 100 SSD oems in 2008.
I've done the research for
you to save you time. And this page is updated daily from
storage news and direct
inputs from oems. ...read
the article, | |