"As Veritas embarks on its one-year anniversary as an independent company, today's announcement marks a pivotal milestone towards accelerating cloud initiatives for our mutual customers, and it begins with more efficient ways to move their data to the Azure cloud," added Palmer. "Microsoft and Veritas customers have enjoyed the benefits of highly complimentary technology offerings, focused on solving IT challenges in the data center," said Jason Zander, corporate vice president, Microsoft Azure team. Further adding, Zander stated, "Our strengthened partnership delivers deeper integration, allowing customers to more easily take advantage of the flexibility and enterprise-grade reliability that Azure provides."