Need to get off the cloud?

Cloud computing platforms aim to improve IT's ability to be agile. To illustrate, cloud platforms let you quickly build and install applications, and change the resources underneath later to make them run better.

Disaster-recovery and business-continuity vendor Racemi is addressing that gap with a new version of its DynaCentre Image-based provisioning server, which can automate the migration of specific workloads from Amazon's EC2 cloud service to similar environments on Rackspace.