Borg, borg, borg: Another one bites the dust as Microsoft assimilates Avere

Avere Systems and its go-faster filer frontend FXT tech is to be gobbled by Microsoft. Avere was founded in 2008 by president and CEO Ron Bianchini and CTO Michael Kazar. It has had five rounds of funding with a total of $97m invested. Bianchini previously sold Spinnaker to NetApp for $300m in 2003. Now Avere has agreed to be …

[bombastic bob]

will the NFS tech survive the assimilation?

I have to wonder whether Microshaft will do the 'Extinguish' part of 'Embrace, Extend, Extinguish' on the NFS tech developed by Avere, as part of their "World Wide Windows" assimilation strategy...

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: will the NFS tech survive the assimilation?

Azure has surprisingly little to do with Windows these days and you'd probably find the NFS tech is one of the main motivations for the acquisition.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: will the NFS tech survive the assimilation?

Haven't MS been offering NFS on Netapp kit up until recently? Possibly a longer term strategy to break away from that relationship since it's probably not what would be considered cloud native.

[Anonymous Coward]

Well, forget about Avere.

[Anonymous Coward]

Anything acquired by Microsoft inevitably turns to turd

Skype, Linkedin etc.

It's only a matter of time.

[Anonymous Coward]

Re: Anything acquired by Microsoft inevitably turns to turd

lol, the nice thing about microsoft is you can completely rely on them to dick everything up

[Anonymous Coward]

Terms not disclosed....usually means buyout was less than $ invested...

Good luck to the storage companies that need an exit...or more cash...Avere has a lot of customers.....y'all are $%*@&'d.

[DagD]

Good News!

All those vms are going to need a boost after they get borked/ erm... patched for the intel vulnerability.

"Cloud" - time for a new marketing buzz word, this one has just about lost it's luster.

How about new "Space" Storage. It's out there man, an you gotta have it!