Microsoft makes move into storage/replication market
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft is well-known for many things, but data storage and replication are not among them. But it is beginning to make a move in that market.
The world's largest software company, based in Redmond, Wash., introduced on Sept. 27 the public beta of its System Center Data Protection Manager version 2 at the Storage Decisions conference in New York.
Built upon Microsoft's DPM 2006the company's first storage software released only last Octoberversion 2 now will enable customers to back up and protect their Microsoft applications.