CloudSwitch gives Verizon a boost in cloud migration

25.08.2011
Verizon Thursday announced it has acquired CloudSwitch, a cloud software technology vendor, further demonstrating that 2011 is becoming Verizon's year of the cloud.

Verizon earlier this year spent $1.4 billion to acquire Terremark, a cloud service company that can offer services and managed infrastructure from 50 different data centers around the world. The deal greatly expanded Terremark's reach, as Terremark only had access to 13 data centers in North America, Europe and Latin America. Terremark and Verizon in June, highlighted by infrastructure-as-a-service offerings and managed hosting services.

The terms of the CloudSwitch deal were not immediately disclosed.

CloudSwitch's specialty is helping companies migrate and workloads between data centers and the cloud "without changing the application or infrastructure layer." In other words, the company says that its users can move their applications securely into the cloud while keeping them "tightly integrated with enterprise tools and policies." Additionally, CloudSwitch, in Burlington, Mass., says it can move data "between different environments and back into the data center based on the requirements of the business."

Also earlier this year, Verizon partnered with that include videoconferencing and instant messaging services over Cisco's cloud infrastructure.