Tag Archives: Microsoft

New file system capacity tool – Microsoft’s FSCT

Posted on April 13, 2011 by Ray

Jose Barreto blogged about a recent report Microsoft did on File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) results (blog here, report here).  As you may know FSCT is a free tool released in September of 2009, available from Microsoft that verifies a SMB … Continue reading →

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R&D effectiveness

Posted on March 9, 2010 by Ray

A recent Gizmodo blog post compared a decade of R&D at Sony, Microsoft and Apple.  There were some interesting charts but mostly it showed that R&D as a percent of revenue, fluctuates from year to year and R&D spend has been … Continue reading →

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NetApp and Microsoft ink 3 year agreement

Posted on December 10, 2009 by Ray

This week, NetApp and Microsoft announced a new agreement that increases the collaboration and integration for both their product technology and sales&marketing activities. Specifically, the new agreement covers better integration of Microsoft’s virtualized infrastructure interaction with NetApp storage. This currently … Continue reading →

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