{"id":39593,"date":"2019-09-05T13:50:55","date_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:50:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/sep\/05\/microsoft-acquire-cloud-migration-tool-provider-movere\/"},"modified":"2019-09-05T13:50:55","modified_gmt":"2019-09-05T13:50:55","slug":"microsoft-to-acquire-cloud-migration-tool-provider-movere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/microsoft-to-acquire-cloud-migration-tool-provider-movere\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft to acquire cloud migration tool provider Movere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/media\/img\/news\/iStock-471179856_k05DHIS.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Microsoft is to acquire Movere, a SaaS platform which increases visibility on IT environments, the companies have announced.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Movere &ndash; whom industry watchers may remember until last year as Unified Logic &ndash; aims to &lsquo;capture, integrate and analyse the data [companies] need to make smart decisions about their IT environment&rsquo;, as the company puts it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The company&rsquo;s dashboard organically scans global environments at a highest rate of 1,000 servers per hour and focuses across multiple parts of the cloud migration journey, as well as cybersecurity.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Movere has been a partner of Microsoft for more than 10 years and will join the Azure team as part of Azure Migrate, <a href=\"https:\/\/azure.microsoft.com\/en-us\/blog\/microsoft-acquires-movere-to-help-customers-unlock-cloud-innovation-with-seamless-migration-tools\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">according to a Microsoft blog post<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;We&rsquo;re committed to providing our customers with a comprehensive experience for migrating existing applications and infrastructure to Azure, which include the right tools, processes, and programs,&rdquo; wrote Jeremy Winter, partner director for Azure management. &ldquo;As part of that ongoing investment, we&rsquo;re excited to welcome the leadership, talent, technology, and deep expertise Movere has built in enabling customers&rsquo; journey to the cloud over the last 11 years.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">For Kristin Ireland, CEO of Movere, the acquisition was a time of reflection on the company&rsquo;s journey to date.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;On our journey to cloud, we made mistakes that cost us valuable time and resources that we didn&rsquo;t have,&rdquo; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.movere.io\/msftacquisition\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Ireland wrote<\/a>. &ldquo;As we spread our wings in the cloud, we realised the cloud was the embodiment of Movere &ndash; the unleashing of business potential through migration &ndash; we knew we had to be part of that journey for as many customers as we could.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">&ldquo;We passionately believe the cloud journey is what opens the door to market disrupting ideas and opportunities; to be part of that journey with customers and partners is a privilege,&rdquo; added Ireland. &ldquo;Thank you to our partners and customers for allowing us to be part of that journey thus far; we are so excited to continue to be faster and better for you as part of the Microsoft Azure team.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">The move represents the first cloudy acquisition of 2019 for Microsoft, aside from investing in big data analytics platform Databricks <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/feb\/06\/databricks-funding-a16z-big-data-platforms\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">back in February<\/a>. This year has been relatively quiet thus far on the acquisition front from the big two; Amazon Web Services (AWS) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/jan\/10\/cloudendure-confirms-acquisition-amazon-web-services\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">acquired CloudEndure<\/a> for a reported $250 million at the start of this year, with undisclosed offers for TSO Logic and E8 Storage since.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Google Cloud, meanwhile, has made more of a statement around its enterprise ambitions with three acquisitions. The company bought business intelligence platform Looker for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/jun\/10\/google-cloud-looks-looker-greater-data-analytics-multi-cloud-focus\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">an all-cash $2.6bn transaction<\/a> in June, alongside deals for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/feb\/20\/google-cloud-acquires-alooma-bolster-enterprise-data-migration-capabilities\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Alooma<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2019\/jul\/10\/google-cloud-acquire-storage-provider-elastifile-further-reinforces-enterprise-ambitions\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Elastifile<\/a> in February and July respectively.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\">Financial terms of the Microsoft and Movere deal were not disclosed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0cm; margin-right:0cm\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\"><span style=\"color:blue\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" src=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cyber-security-world-series-1.png\" style=\"height:59px; width:272px\" \/><\/span><\/a><strong>Interested in hearing industry leaders discuss subjects like this and sharing their experiences and use-cases<\/strong>? Attend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cybersecuritycloudexpo.com\/\" style=\"color:#0563c1; text-decoration:underline\">Cyber Security &amp; Cloud Expo World Series<\/a> with upcoming events in Silicon Valley, London and Amsterdam to learn more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft is to acquire Movere, a SaaS platform which increases visibility on IT environments, the companies have announced.<br \/>\nMovere &ndash; whom industry watchers may remember until last year as Unified Logic &ndash; aims to &lsquo;capture, integrate a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":50,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-39593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39593","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/50"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39593"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39593\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":39594,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39593\/revisions\/39594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}