14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft announced plans to acquire StorSimple Inc. for an undisclosed sum, hinting that the company is looking to focus more on the cloud storage business in the future.
The Redmond-based technology company however hasn’t revealed too much of its plans, but it did mention that StorSimple would play a key role for its hybrid cloud-computing approach.
“StorSimple’s differentiation is in their software intellectual property and their talent. While its appliance relies on standard hardware provided by a third party; there are no hardware engineers on its staff,” said Michael Park, corporate vice president, Windows Server and Management Product Marketing Group, told ZDNet.
“Microsoft has a long history of partnering with storage OEMs and we believe the acquisition of StorSimple will create new partnering opportunities.”