Cloud Service Brokers (CSBs) fill a relatively new role, intermediating between Cloud Providers and businesses that need Cloud Services. As advocates for Cloud customers, CSBs are perfectly positioned to help businesses migrate their servers to the Cloud. And the RiverMeadow Cloud Migration SaaS is perfectly positioned to be the engine for those migrations.
Migrating servers and legacy applications to the Cloud has traditionally been a labor-intensive activity requiring some degree of re-engineering and adapting to Cloud-based services. The RiverMeadow SaaS migrates complete server workloads and performs the hard work of replacing system services and resources with the equivalent Cloud-based capabilities. The result is a more streamlined migration that usually doesn’t require significant labor to complete.
For CSBs, this means migrations can be completed with less effort and higher quality. Any remaining custom work is simpler because most of the work has already been done. The upshot is CSBs can provide higher levels of service to their customers, focusing on adding true value.
The RiverMeadow SaaS is able to move server workloads to many different Clouds, transforming underlying dependencies as needed. This allows CSBs to consult to their customers on Cloud qualities such as security, reliability, SLAs, and other business attributes, not just whether the legacy workload shares the target Cloud’s architecture. CSBs can go further and layer Cloud brokering “on top of” the RiverMeadow SaaS engine itself (by using the RiverMeadow RESTFul API), providing automated brokering of Cloud choices when workloads are deployed.
With the RiverMeadow SaaS, CSBs can up-level their business models, provide more sophisticated services to their customers, and increase customer satisfaction.
