Velostrata, a leader in cloud migration and workload mobility, today announced it has joined the Microsoft Enterprise Cloud Alliance (ECA).
By joining the program, Velostrata deepens its relationship with
Microsoft and their partner and customer ecosystems. Velostrata cloud
migration and workload mobility software enables users to migrate
on-premises workloads into Azure within a matter of minutes, and has
proved valuable for helping customers keep Azure migration projects on
time and on budget.
"We
are thrilled to join Microsoft's Enterprise Cloud Alliance, as it
enables us to further help Microsoft partners and enterprise customers
with their large-scale cloud migration journeys," said Issy Ben-Shaul,
CEO and co-founder of Velostrata. "Adoption of Microsoft Azure is
increasing rapidly as enterprises realize the business benefits of
better agility and a reduced datacenter footprint. Velostrata is paving
the way for seamless adoption and mass migration."
Velostrata and Microsoft Azure
Velostrata
cloud migration and workload mobility software accelerates and
simplifies cloud migration. Velostrata's agentless platform can reduce
the cost of migration projects by saving up to 7 hours per server in
labor compared to agent-based approaches. When it comes to migration of
thousands of servers, this translates to significant cost savings in
manual labor. Unique workload streaming and auto-adaptation makes it
possible to have stateful workloads up and running in the cloud in
minutes, with no risk of data loss or complex cutover and
synchronization procedures. Velostrata also works at scale, allowing
migration of 100s of servers per day. System management is easy via a
vCenter plugin or REST API.
"The
Enterprise Cloud Alliance Partner Program welcomes Microsoft partners
like Velostrata that are developing and delivering best in class
enterprise and cloud solutions in strategic engagements with Microsoft
to accelerate business and innovation," said Chris Lwanga, Principal,
Cloud Ecosystem Engagement at Microsoft Corp. "Partners who are
developing solutions that can work with and leverage innovations in the
Microsoft Intelligent Cloud will benefit from the promotion and access
that are benefits of enrollment in the Enterprise Cloud Alliance to
maximize their business opportunities."
The ability to move workloads quickly and easily to Azure gives organizations many business advantages, including:
- Cost Savings:
Save labor hours, avoid colocation renewals and associated management
costs, reduce data center footprint, take advantage of pay-as-you-go
pricing for non-24x7 applications, and avoid double paying for
infrastructure by dramatically shortening migration windows.
- Agility:
When ready to migrate, Velostrata moves the actual server instances to
Azure in minutes. Data is transferred in the background while the
application runs without affecting performance, and any changes to data
are captured in the cloud, so there is no complicated syncing or
cutover.
- Risk Reduction:
Velostrata's Test Clone feature makes it possible to move an exact
clone of any workload to Azure in minutes, without taking production
applications offline. During migration, IT managers can roll back
individual workloads on-premises in minutes.
- Mass Migration Support:
Deduplication and WAN optimizations make it possible to move hundreds
of virtual machines simultaneously to the cloud over modest bandwidth
links.
Velostrata software is available for Linux and Windows in the Azure Marketplace with a free tier for evaluation, and it scales on a pay-as-you-go model.