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Microsoft tries to paint VMware azure with disaster recovery detour
Redmond's cloudy DR can now handle Virtzilla-styled VMs
Azure like it
Redmond has been talking this one up for a while but flicked the switch on Thursday.
That's almost certainly a significant irritant to VMware, which talks of welcome momentum for vCloud Air but is yet to trumpet it as a success or reveal revenue.
The company has said that all its cloudy efforts – vCloud Air and its various SaaS plays – delivered about five per cent of revenue in Q4 2014, and are growing fast.
Microsoft may just have thrown out some obstacles to that acceleration. The Reg's virtualisation desk expects Redmond to make more manoeuvres soon, by outlining a cogent position for how it expects Windows Server users should operate their hybrid clouds.
At present, Microsoft offers System Centre, Azure Stack and Operations Management Suite, all of which overlap to varying degrees.
Once Microsoft can explain just what fits where, and when and why, it will be able to match the vCloud Air story and offer a DR alternative to vSphere users who aren't keen to put all their eggs in one basket. ®