The VMware acquisition continues as the company announces it will acquire disaster recovery-as-a-service (DRaaS) service Datrium for an undisclosed amount. Hybrid cloud has become increasingly popular with organizations that sometimes have thousands of applications. However, securing and maintaining these applications in hybrid cloud environments is often quite difficult. With its latest acquisition, VMware plans to extend the current state of its VMware Site Recovery DRaaS offering with Datrium's cost-optimized DRaaS solution. This will help customers build hybrid clouds by combining VMware Cloud infrastructure and operations with Datrium DRaaS to reduce the cost and complexity of business continuity.
Disaster Recovery as a Service
DRaaS is the fastest growing segment for data protection use cases with a market of 4.500 billion, according to IDC's Global Forecast for Data Protection as a Service from IDC 2019-2023. dollars with a growth of 15% in CAGR. After signing the agreement following regulatory approval, Datrium's disaster recovery service will extend the existing VMware Site Recovery DRaaS solution with a cost-optimized option. The company's DRaaS solution already offers an end-to-end cloud-based user experience on VMware Cloud on AWS. In a blog post announcing the acquisition, Datrium CEO Tim Page explained how the deal would allow him to accelerate plans to support all major cloud platforms, saying: “Data protection and disaster recovery in Profitable cloud are at the core of our mission at Datrium, and have never been more important to our clients. By partnering with VMware, we will be able to accelerate our roadmap plans to support all major cloud platforms, work with a broader partner community, including more than 4.400 members of the VMware Cloud Provider program, and deliver more innovation more fast. via ZDNet