Cristie Solution Enables Automated Process for Migration to Cloud

Cristie Software Limited will shortly be releasing Clonemanager, a software for migration and cloning.

It provides a simple automated process for moving or copying physical or VMs to cloud and other environments. It is integrated with VMware vCloud director and other cloud management software.

Clonemanager migrations can be either real time (live) or staged to an intermediate storage device. It also provides a discovery service which will be used to monitor the utilization of memory, processing, storage and network resources on source machines prior to migration so that the target machines can be correctly provisioned. In addition it provides the ability to periodically synchronize the target machine with the source machine thereby creating a warm clone that can be used for DR. The software also allows a range of configuration options to be specified or changed on the target machine – either in advance or during the migration process.

Ian Cameron, CEO of Cristie Software, said: "We have been developing this software in close conjunction with one of the largest global service providers to create a solution for on-boarding customers. In addition to providing fast, automated migration of individual machines or entire data centres to and from the cloud, the software also provides the ability to create clone machines that can be used for DR and business continuance."

Cristie Software expects to announce the release of Clonemanager within the next few weeks. It will be available through reseller network as well as being targeted at large cloud service providers.