Steve Herrod, chief technology officer, VMware, in his blog, ‘The Console; VMware’s Executive Blog’, announced that VMware has acquired the assets of EMC’s Mozy cloud-based data protection service. He also adds that VMware will operate the Mozy service on behalf of EMC without interruption.

“Over the past 5 years, Mozy has built one of the best examples of a globally distributed, large-scale cloud offering. We believe that, by being directly engaged with the delivery of such a service, VMware will further ramp our own cloud-related learning and accelerate new IP, scale, and capabilities into the products that we provide to our customers and public cloud partners,” he notes.