GoGrid and Racemi Partner to Offer Free On-Ramp to Cloud Computing

April 10, 2013 Off By David

Grazed from Sys Con Media. Author: Glenn Rossman.

GoGrid, a cloud infrastructure company, and Racemi, the moving company for the cloud, on Tuesday announced the availability of Cloud Path for GoGrid, a joint offering for migrating customers’ existing server workloads to GoGrid’s cloud platform free of charge. The Cloud Path Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) offering is a customer self-service web portal for automated migration of existing Windows and Linux servers to GoGrid Cloud Server instances. There is no infrastructure to deploy or maintain on the customer site. Plus, the live capture of server workloads eliminates powering down servers and means no server downtime.

"This free migration solution provides an average cost savings of $800 per server migrated versus manual processes," said Lawrence Guillory, CEO, Racemi. "Even more important, it reduces customers’ migration project timelines from days, weeks, or even months to just hours."…

"We’re excited to launch this new service with Racemi," said Dave Smith, vice president of global sales at GoGrid. "Together, we’re making it painless for customers to migrate existing workloads to our innovative cloud platform and saving them thousands of dollars in the process."…

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