Using multi-cloud management software to juggle cloud providers

Grazed from TechTarget. Author: Beth Pariseau.

Enterprises that want a choice between cloud service providers have several multi-cloud management software offerings to choose from, though workload migrations after initial deployments remain rare. Vendors such as RightScale Inc. and CliQr Technologies Inc. offer multi-cloud management software, which gives users the ability to deploy workloads without modification to different clouds, as well as the ability to move workloads between clouds at will.

We don’t have to tie up to any particular cloud. We can basically profile to see which one is providing the best performance for the best cost and then we can direct our customers to that. Enterprise IT pros who have put these products into production said that, so far, they have helped them migrate workloads to their choice of cloud service providers…

Product teams within Pearson International, a division of the Pearson global education company, use RightScale’s software to manage multiple public cloud deployments on Amazon Web Services (AWS) in North America and Europe, and DataPipe in China. RightScale can deploy virtual machines (VMs) quickly in the cloud, and it can also apply a multi-cloud image beneath VMs to be moved from cloud to cloud…

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