Microsoft has acquired the intellectual property of Maryland-based String Bean software, a company that develops storage area networking solutions for the Microsoft Windows computing environment. This acquisition will add the startup's WinTarget software that turns a Windows file server into an iSCSI target, into Microsoft storage portfolio. Microsoft's decision to make an iSCSI initiator available for free in 2003 is considered one of the drivers of IP SAN adoption because it saved users from having to buy expensive TCP/IP offload cards (TOEs).
Microsoft will sell WinTarget as a feature pack for Windows Storage Server 2003 R2. The feature pack will allow companies to use a storage server as a NAS device and iSCSI target.
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