Microsoft Acquires BlueStripe Software

This is actually pretty big news. Today Microsoft has announced that is acquiring heterogeneous monitoring and troubleshooting solutions maker BlueStripe.

I've spent some time with BlueStripe over the past few years, periodically sitting through demos and meetings showing the evolution of the company's products. I've always been more than impressed. We had planned to schedule another catch-up shortly after Microsoft Ignite but that never coalesced, and now I can see why.

I last wrote about BlueStripe in September of last year, highlighting how the company's FactFinder solution could help spur migrations away from Windows Server 2003 before the old product expired (expires next month, on July 15).

At its core, BlueStripe is a provider of management and monitoring solutions, with integrations into Microsoft System Center. Using Live Dashboards, Maps, and Monitoring, BlueStripe solutions can be integrated into Operations Manager, Orchestrator, and Service Manager to make the products better and more full-featured. In addition to the System Center integration, BlueStripe can also enable end-to-end monitoring and management for the various Cloud providers, like Azure, AWS, Rackspace, and others.

Microsoft has this to say about the acquisition…

The amount of the acquisition deal has not been disclosed.