Microsoft on Friday announced that it has acquired a cloud-based business continuity service InMage, in an effort to make Azure the top choice for disaster recovery worldwide.
Microsoft believes that the acquisition will accelerate the company’s strategy in providing “hybrid cloud business continuity solutions” and said that it will integrate InMage technology within the Azure Site Recovery service, with the closure of the deal.
Announcing the deal in the official blog, Takeshi Numoto, Microsoft’s corporate vice president of cloud and enterprise described InMage as “an innovator in the emerging area of cloud-based business continuity.”
Numoto said that the customers claim business continuity service, with the ability to back up and quickly recover data in case of any system failure to be of incredible importance, noting that it’s “very complicated and expensive” to do. He added that business continuity is consistently ranked as top priority by CIOs, but often face problems with budgets and timings.
InMage, based in San Jose, California, was started in 2001 offering Scout software, which back up or replicate data for recovery. The company launched InMage-4000 hardware last year that lets enterprises “restart data centres in minutes with near zero data loss” and move all the data to cloud. InMage has previously pulled in at least $36 million in venture capital funding from various companies like Amidzad Partners, Hummer Winblad and Intel Capital.
Numoto said that the InMage’s Scout service, including ScoutCloud, will be taken into the Azure Site Recovery fold, following the acquisition. He said that InMage technology can help VMware’s customers explore options to “permanently migrate” applications to the cloud.
The companies are yet to reveal the financial terms of the deal. Microsoft noted that the InMage will continue to serve its existing customers even after the acquisition.
