A Google News search for Microsoft SSDS, the SQL Server Data Services it announced last week, yields just six articles - SIX! A random nonsense search term probably returns more than six items.
But SSDS is a big deal, a strategy with far-reaching implications for many parts of the technology industry, deserving of more than six Google News hits. SSDS, as a part of Microsoft's emerging Web 2.0 superpower strategy serves notice to the status quo vendors, IBM, Sun, HP, Dell, EMC, CA, Symantec and many more, that Microsoft is about to get medieval on them.SSDS is now in general beta and Microsoft defines it as "highly scalable, on-demand data storage and query processing utility services." In other words, it's a giant data storage engine that can be used like electricity or water.
