{"id":4146,"date":"2012-10-16T17:02:00","date_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2404607"},"modified":"2012-10-16T17:02:00","modified_gmt":"2012-10-16T17:02:00","slug":"microsoft-buys-storsimple","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-buys-storsimple\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft Buys StorSimple"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said Tuesday that it\u2019s going to buy privately held StorSimple and its Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions to advance its Cloud OS vision and help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing more efficiently.<br \/>\nIt did not say what it\u2019s paying.<br \/>\nAs a gauge, the start-up raised at least $31.5 million in VC funding from such companies as Ignition, a retreat of ex-Microsofties.<br \/>\nStorSimple is a partner of Microsoft\u2019s and its widgetry works with Windows.<br \/>\nIt integrates cloud storage for on-premises applications and offers a single appliance delivering high-performance tiered local and cloud storage, live archiving, cloud-based data protection and disaster recovery.<br \/>\nIronically, it also supports VMware and OpenStack, the latter by integrating with Rackspace\u2019s underlying Cloud Files. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/cloudcomputing.sys-con.com\/node\/2404607\" >read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft said Tuesday that it\u2019s going to buy privately held StorSimple and its Cloud-integrated Storage (CiS) solutions to advance its Cloud OS vision and help customers embrace hybrid cloud computing more efficiently.<br \/>\nIt did not say what it\u2019s pa&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}