Help Available in Converting to the Cloud
Recently, Cast Iron Systems, a provider of cloud integration services, teamed up with Amazon in a business partnership. Specifically, the partnership will offer enterprises a way to move their applications to the Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (Amazon EC2).
Why is this good news?
Well, if you’re like IT at many businesses today, you’ve probably been considering whether or not to move your apps and data from internal servers to the cloud. Yeah, everybody knows about the efficiencies and cost-savings, but what about the practical, how-to decisions involved: does all the data go, or does some stay? When the switch is flipped, will we be completely transitioned? How long does it take.
Cast Iron aims to manage those issues for companies making the move to the cloud. On the one hand, Cast Iron will help its business customers migrate data to Amazon. And it will also help firms easily manage access to their data.
This is a great example of providers recognizing that not every company is ready to jump on the cloud computing bandwagon. And that some want to, but not all at once.
It’s a hybrid world, and it’s good to see that the cloud work recognizes that. You can read more about the Cast Iron/Amazon partnership on ZDNet.