EMC, Microsoft renew data storage development alliance
eWeek | at | by Mike
Microsoft and data storage giant EMC are renewing their product partnership. Fundamentally, EMC provides the storage and data protection elements of the joint products, while Microsoft supplies the virtualization and data management software. Although EMC and Microsoft have been partners in producing individual products since the late 1990s, the companies' previous three-year development, sales and marketing agreement expired Dec. 31, 2008.
Two of the biggest names in IT, storage infrastructure giant EMC and software giant Microsoft, renewed their profitable partnership Feb. 3, announcing an extension of their alliance through 2011.