Microsoft gains storage traction
InternetNews | at | by Mike
With Windows Storage Server continuing to win over small and mid-size customers with a 53 percent unit share of the 2005 worldwide NAS and unified storage market, according to Gartner and Windows Unified Data Storage Server 2003 making inroads into the enterprise space, Microsoft appears to be the vendor to beat in the storage server space. While that is clearly not good news for the competition, Microsoft customers aren't complaining.
"We had been a Novell eDirectory/Novell NetWare shop for authentication and file and print," says Rob Summers, enterprise network planner and integrator at Intermountain Healthcare, a 27,000-employee nonprofit healthcare system based in Salt Lake City.