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Microsoft’s pickup of InMage Systems strengthens its hand against VMware in the increasingly important area of disaster recovery. Unlike VMware, Microsoft now supports virtually all enterprise platforms for disaster recovery, whereas VMware is limited to its own environments.
While there are other emerging companies with a focus on disaster recovery for virtual machines, Microsoft was drawn to InMage for the depth and maturity of the technology the vendor has built up in 15 years of operations, and InMage’s focus on hybrid clouds plays into Microsoft’s ambitions in the service-provider market, where it has gained some recent traction.
Today, VMware is Microsoft’s main rival on the disaster-recovery front, and we expect that it will begin to see more of Amazon, which has been busy adding business-continuity features to the AWS cloud, including a recent partnership with HotLink, which provides DR services for VMware environments by using AWS as the recovery infrastructure.
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