Microsoft has acquired InMage, a start-up providing cloud-based business continuity solutions. Financial terms were not disclosed.
InMage, which is based in San Jose, California, develops software for backup and disaster recovery. Its Scout products collects data changes from production servers as they occur, directly in memory before they are written to disk, and sends them to a software appliance called the InMage Scout Server.
Microsoft said it is working to integrate the InMage Scout technology into its Azure Site Recovery service. The company already announced its plan to enable data migration to Azure with Scout. Microsoft said its strategy is 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.
