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Microsoft Acquires InMage

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InMage

Microsoft has acquired InMage, a company that provides disaster recovery solutions to companies, for an undisclosed sum. “This 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, ” said Takeshi Numoto, corporate vice president, Cloud and Enterprise Marketing, Microsoft, talking about the acquisition. 

The InMage Scout technology will be integrated with Microsoft’s Azure site recovery service.

[Image courtesy: InMage]

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