Automating Server Migrations into the Cloud

August 19, 2015 Off By David
Object Storage

Grazed from TalkinCloud. Author: Mike Vizard.

The trouble most solution providers have with migrating servers into the cloud is that it’s generally a one-time event that is hard to build an ongoing IT service practice around. Not only does the migration usually require a fair amount of time; each server migration can take weeks to migrate. But once it’s done the solution provider winds up with a lot of expertise in server migration that can only be reapplied only so many times.

For that reason WSM International has made a business out of working with solution providers to automate server migrations as much as possible. As of today, WSM International is now offering those server migration services at a fixed price starting at $849 per Linux or Windows Server…

WSM International CEO Ryan Pelerin said that reason his company can provide a Server Image Migration Service that includes the source environment and tool assessment, software license fees, creation, transfer and restore of the server image from source to destination, and testing instructions for customers to validate the image restore, is because that’s pretty much all they do…

Read more from the source @ http://talkincloud.com/cloud-computing/automating-server-migrations-cloud