Microsoft plans Hyper-V-and-other-clouds-to-Azure migration tool Microsoft has revealed the Azure Migrate tool it announced as supporting lift and shift from on-prem vSphere to Azure will also become capable of doing the same for on-premises Hyper-V applications and applications in rival clouds. But the company’s stayed schtum about the identity of the mystery VMware partner that has helped …
"Their toolset only assists migration *to* their network, not away from it.."
No, 'their toolset' also includes options like Azure DR and StorSimple which replicate to / from on premises.
One of the major advantages of Azure is that you always have an on premises option - both in Azure Stack - and in running your own Microsoft Servers. Unlike say AWS where if you write for say Dynamo DB you are screwed if you ever want to move !
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