Microsoft is on course to improve its share of the storage market that has long been dominated by EMC, Hewlett-Packard, NetApp and others, said Ted Kummert, corporate vice president of Microsoft's Data and Storage Platform Division, speaking Oct. 17 at Storage Networking World here.
Microsoft has already proved itself as the "general platform for all data"—through widespread adoption of Windows, Microsoft Office and Exchange—and is carrying this experience forward into the storage market, he said.
"We're making storage products that you can bet your business on," Kummert said, "with support for standards, a direction toward self-maintenance and the support of our wide range of partners."
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