We're pleased to announce today that the Cloudamize partner program has achieved unprecedented growth to date in 2017. Since January 2017, we have tripled the number of new partners we've signed and have achieved a 130% increase in partner channel revenue compared to January through August of 2016. Our platform was used to support 775 cloud migration assessments so far this year, a 57% increase since this time last year.
For many organizations, completing a cloud migration isn’t an opportunity to pop the champagne. Instead of celebrating the completion of a successful project, organizations that haven’t identified their right-sized cloud before migration often discover they have over- or under-provisioned their resources—and experiencing poor cost-performance issues as a result.
I first met Khushboo Shah some five years ago and I knew immediately this was not your average founder. There is in fact nothing average about Khushboo. Some time ago, she participated in a startup accelerator program in Philly and I was assigned as her coach and over the next few years I became an informal advisor.
Today we announced exciting news about the future of Cloudamize. We are joining forces with Cloudreach, a London-based software enabled services business, to accelerate intelligent cloud adoption. You can read more about this news here.
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The beginning of your cloud migration strategy should address the “5 Ws” of cloud migration: who, what, where, when, and why. Before you begin your migration, leverage the following “5 Ws” to reduce the likelihood of costly mistakes and reap the benefits of a successful move to the cloud.
For most IT leaders, completing a migration to the cloud isn’t the end of cloud worries. After you migrate, you still may wonder: “What if we go over budget?” “What if we experience performance issues?” “Given the cloud’s complexity, how do get an accurate picture of our cloud so that we can manage our costs?”
At Cloudamize, we constantly look for ways to make it easier for our clients to move to the cloud. That’s why we’re proud to announce that we will now integrate with RiverMeadow Software® Inc., a leading provider of cross-hypervisor, Lift & Shift server migration. Together the integrated Cloudamize and RiverMeadow platforms will help companies improve the ease, speed, and accuracy of moving to and operating in the cloud.
We all know that migrating applications to the cloud doesn’t happen overnight. There’s a lot of planning to develop a strategy that will result in successful execution. Here are five things to know before migrating applications to the cloud. Neglecting to consider any of them can have a negative impact on your overall cloud migration planning and execution.
The reason spring-cleaning causes us so much stress isn’t the cleaning itself. It isn’t moving all the big stuff out of the way, nor is it all the vacuuming and dusting that we do before we put everything back in place. Instead, the reason that spring-cleaning is such an onerous chore is because of all the decisions we must make. If our closets are overstuffed, which things do we move to the basement? What do we store under the bed? What do we donate, sell, or toss out? Each individual item gets considered and many get reorganized into a new spot.
Goldilocks had it easy. The fairy tale character walked into a house, tasted a few bowls of porridge, and found her “just right” fit on her third try. But for organizations migrating their infrastructure to the cloud, finding the “just right” fit is a lot more complicated. Unlike Goldilocks, organizations migrating to the cloud face over 25 million cloud configuration options. These options include different combinations of CPU, memory, storage, and capacity, and it’s quite challenging to figure out which is right for you.
