As a further sign of its efforts to open up its platforms and support customers with mixed shops, Microsoft today updated Azure Site Recovery to allow it to be used with VMware virtual machines (VMs) and physical servers using Azure in addition to the Hyper-V VMs it already supports. The update is currently in tech preview.

“We’re listening to our customers and partners who are telling us to make sure that they can think of Azure as a platform for all of their applications and data,” says Mike Schutz, general manager of Cloud Platform Marketing at Microsoft. “It’s absolutely part of a broader strategy for us to offer an open and flexible infrastructure for customers to enable them to have Azure run all of their applications.”

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