Fedr8 offers up Cloud Options with Strategic Blue

Fedr8, an innovative cloud solutions provider, has formed a strategic partnership with Strategic Blue, experts in the pricing and trading of cloud computing resources. Strategic Blue, founded in 2009 by former commodity traders from Morgan Stanley, brings pricing transparency to the cloud services market through its Cloud Options service. Using trading techniques commonplace for other utilities, Cloud Options helps cloud buyers to compare cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) and secure the best deal.

Tuesday, 22nd July 2014 Posted 10 years ago in by Phil Alsop

As part of the strategic alliance, Fedr8 and Strategic Blue will promote each other’s services in the marketplace via a series of online initiatives. The first will be a joint webinar on pricing and the technical challenges of moving to the cloud. The webinar is aimed companies looking to move their applications into the cloud for the first time, and existing cloud customers looking for more cost effective alternatives.

Fedr8’s new Argentum software analysis system enables large organisations to move legacy applications more easily and cheaply to the cloud. It can identify and remove any current inhibitors within the source code of the application, which need addressing before migration to the cloud. In short, companies are no longer locked into a single cloud provider, giving them the chance to switch to less expensive providers as the market evolves.

Dean Chapman, CEO of Fedr8, said: “Strategic Blue and Fedr8 share a goal, which is to open up the cloud marketplace to more companies and enable its practice use. We are both looking at ways to remove hurdles that stop companies moving to the cloud or taking advantage of its pricing volatility.

For Fedr8, we help large organisations identify and remediate the code in the legacy applications that currently prevent them adopting the cloud and provide them with the ability to federate their applications between service providers. For Strategic Blue, their aim is to lower the costs of cloud hosting by treating it as a utility, with suitably competitive pricing.”