CloudSigma, CloudLeap Partner on Live Cloud Migrations

Public cloud infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) provider CloudSigma has partnered with cloud migration software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider CloudLeap to make it easier for organizations to shift from existing on-premise and cloud environments to CloudSigma’s cloud while also providing enhanced disaster recovery.

The two companies will work together to “conduct seamless, live migrations” of on-premise and other cloud providers’ infrastructure to the CloudSigma public cloud. Additionally, CloudLeap will provide its customers the ability to failover to CloudSigma’s cloud in the event of an outage for improved disaster recovery and high availability.

“This partnership comes at a strategic time in the IaaS industry’s development,” said Robert Jenkins, CloudSigma CEO, in a prepared statement. “With Rackspace moving away from its IaaS role to focus more on managed services, there are many companies contacting us looking for an easy way to migrate their VMs to a provider like CloudSigma instead of opting for Rackspace’s much more expensive managed hosting offering. Our new integration with CloudLeap allows them to achieve that quickly, easily and with little or no disruption to running services.”

Jenkins seems a little misinformed about its competitor’s intentions in the IaaS space. Rackspace did recently announce some changes in its IaaS pricing and the way it positions itself as an IaaS provider, but CTO John Engates recently told Talkin’ Cloud it has no intention of leaving the IaaS space.

However, if CloudSigma is experiencing an uptick in business from Rackspace customers that think their current cloud infrastructure provider is abandoning the market, then perhaps Rackspace needs to reinforce its position with organizations.

Whatever the case, CloudSigma executives clearly have Rackspace’s customers on their minds. The company currently operates five data centers—mostly in the U.S., with locations in Silicon Valley; Washington, D.C.; Miami; and Hawaii, but also in Zurich.

According to Jenkins, many organizations spend much time making the decision to shift their resources to the cloud and then in choosing their cloud services providers. Completing the move is another story, though. That’s where the complexity truly sets in and companies stumble.

“Our partnership with CloudLeap removes that complexity, helping companies accelerate their migrations to CloudSigma’s platform in a few easy steps,” Jenkins said. “And, with the ability to fail over between CloudSigma cloud locations or another CloudLeap provider, they can rest assured that their server instances will remain available.”