VMware acquired Datrium to add a unified disaster recovery layer to its hybrid cloud portfolio. The Datrium Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) platform provides a federated but centrally managed layer of data services for backup, continuous data protection, and security. Datrium and VMware announced their joint disaster recovery service in August of 2019, making Datrium’s DRaaS platform available for VMware on AWS. Ultimately, this paved the way for VMware’s acquisition of Datrium, as the DRaaS use case fueled the initial growth of VMware’s strategic hybrid cloud offering. This already existing integration between both products significantly decreases the risk of this transaction for VMware, as there is no better proof of concept than the preexisting produ ction deployments.