Microsoft Buys Data Protection Service Inmage, strengthens Azure cloud services

One months ago, Pingwest had reported that Microsoft had bought news-driven service provider Capptain, in large part to allow Azure cloud services to attract more mobile application developers. For cloud services, security and sustainability are just as critical as improving convenience, so this week Microsoft acquired a data backup and recovery service provider named Inmage to reinforce Azure cloud services.

For many companies, because the revenue, customer satisfaction and other information has been electronic, so it is critical to quickly back up, restore the business operation data is very important. In traditional enterprises, the tools used by the technology department to prepare for backup and recovery data in disaster situations are often diverse-both for virtual devices and for physical devices. If you count the corresponding tools for UNIX and the database, the entire operation is already quite complex. Companies want to create such a system, naturally also cost quite expensive.

In Inmage's view, data protection should not be so time-consuming and laborious, enterprises should have a unified data protection program to deal with the various types of data products. By acquiring Inmage, Microsoft's Hybrid cloud service will provide data protection and backup services for various IT environments, including Windows, Linux, VMware, and Hyper-V. It also makes Azure the ideal destination for all kinds of business services in the world to deal with data disasters.

After the acquisition is complete, the Inmage technology will be integrated with Azure's own data recovery service. Inmage existing customers can also continue to use inmage services without having to worry about the business being terminated. Both Microsoft and Inmage, however, did not disclose the price of the deal.

In fact, in addition to Microsoft, Amazon and Google are trying to promote their own cloud services. This month, Google first combined Panzura the start-up company to provide free 2TB of cloud storage space for the Enterprise for a year, and then Amazon also released an enterprise-class cloud storage service Zocalo, the price is very aggressive, AWS users can even use Zocalo to provide 50GB space for each user free of charge. All this has forced the profit model of cloud providers to shift from price to value-added services.

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(Responsible editor: Mengyishan)