Virtustream takes aim at complex cloud migrations

Grazed from NetworkWorld. Author: Brandon Butler.

Virtustream is one of the most successful – yet least well known – public, private and hybrid cloud computing vendors in the market. While it doesn’t have the brand name recognition of the giants of this industry, such as the Amazon Web Services, Microsoft’s and Google’s of the world, it does have the accolades.

In Gartner’s recent Magic Quadrant report it named the company, which began in 2008 and is headquartered in Washington D.C., one of the top 15 revenue-producing IaaS vendors. It received the highest marks out of the vendors analyzed for security and compliance. While it doesn’t release revenue figures, it is growing by triple digits annually and was positioned overall mid-pack among its competitors by Gartner. For a 6-year old venture-backed company to be rubbing elbows with some of the big wigs of the industry isn’t bad…

Virtustream is taking a unique approach to this market – one decidedly different from the AWS’s and Microsoft’s of the world. Instead of a massive scale, credit-card swipe, pay-as-you-go virtual machine and storage service, Virtustream wants to act as a consultant with its customers. It revels in complex workload migration into the cloud…

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