Microsoft buys Movere to move work to the cloud

Microsoft has acquired cloud-migration provider Movere with an undisclosed amount. Movere based in Bellevue, Wash and previously known as Unified Logic. Movere’s technology helps companies move to Amazon as well as to Azure.

Movere’s technology founded in 2008 and supports companies that are moving to the public cloud, including Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services. The major customers are including AT&T and McDonald’s. With this acquisition Microsoft would get more businesses onto its Azure public cloud, which is poised to get an assist from the acquisition.

Movere, prior to the acquisition, has been a certified Microsoft Gold Partner and an AWS Advanced ISV Partner for Migration. Movere’s technology helps IT administrators better understand how data center tools are used and then figure out the best options as they move into the public cloud. Microsoft said in a blog post , that it bought Movere to make “migration an easier process for our customers.”

Terms of the pay-out was not disclosed, there is growing competition among Azure and Amazon, trails Amazon Web Services in the cloud infrastructure market. Both companies are luring an increasing number of large businesses and government agencies, which are offloading large workloads and data storage to the cloud so they can do more with their data and access it quickly from anywhere.

“We believe that successful cloud migrations enable business transformation, and this acquisition underscores our investments to make that happen,” Jeremy Winter, partner director for Azure management at Microsoft, wrote in the post.