History: All Storage Acquisitions of Microsoft

Below are all the acquisitions of Microsoft in storage. There are small companies as the software giant never was deeply involved in storage.

Month	Year	Acquired company	Price in $ million	Activity of acquired firm
9	2002	XDegrees	NA	Solutions to secure information stored across enterprise systems
11	2005	Iomega’s ByteTaxi	2.9	Software to set up peer-to-peer Internet and private networks
3	2006	String Bean Software	NA	Software to allow a storage server to function as a NAS or iSCSI target
10	2006	Winternals Software	NA	Windows-based data protection and recovery software
10	2012	StorSimple	NA	Cloud-integrated storage solutions
7	2014	InMage	NA	Software for hybrid cloud platform
1	2018	Avere Systems	NA	Cloud enabled enterprise NAS solutions through FXT Edge filer high performance appliance