Microsoft Buys Disaster Recovery Service InMage: Here's the Scoop

Microsoft (MSFT) last week announced its acquisition of InMage, a San Jose, California-based disaster recovery company that specializes in providing hybrid cloud technology for enterprises and managed services providers (MSPs). The financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.

For the Redmond, Washington-based tech giant, the acquisition will “accelerate our strategy to provide hybrid cloud business continuity solutions for any customer IT environment, be it Windows or Linux, physical or virtualized on Hyper-V, VMware or others,” Microsoft Cloud and Enterprise Market Corporate Vice President Takeshi Numoto said in a company blog post on Friday.

Once the acquisition is complete, Microsoft plans to integrate the InMage Scout technology into Microsoft’s Azure Site Recovery service. The company also noted that data migration to Azure with Scout is already available.

Here’s a list of stories you might want to take a look at if you want to learn more about Microsoft’s acquisition of InMage.

Microsoft Buys Disaster Recovery Service InMage. Want to know how Microsoft will use this deal to integrate the two technologies together and leverage the cloud? Freelance writer Linda M. Rosencrance provides the answers in a piece for Top Tech News.

Microsoft Buys Business-Focused Cloud Provider InMage. Michael Calia, a breaking-news reporter for The Wall Street Journal, gives a quick overview of the acquisition after the deal was announced on Microsoft’s blog.

Microsoft acquires disaster recovery solutions firm InMage to strengthen Azure. How will InMage’s technology play a role in Microsoft’s portfolio? ZDNet contributor Charlie Osborne lays out the details from the company’s blog post for her readers.

Microsoft Acquires Hybrid Cloud Company and Best of TechEd Winner, InMage. Windows IT Pro IT Community Manager Rod Trent has his own take on the deal. Trent brings up Microsoft’s cloud commitment in his analysis “So, as much as Microsoft is ‘all-in’for the Cloud, it seems the company is ‘all-in’ for hardware and devices.”

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