"Given the investments being made, success for cloud migration service providers will depend on their venues being destinations - not only for new application deployments, but for the re-platforming of existing applications and servers. This is the opportunity RiverMeadow is targeting, and the company is making what appears to be solid progress in its OEM and partner progams."
"Onboarding is the elephant in the corner of the cloud – templates only take you so far up the stack, and the rest of the workload is manually configured, fragile and messy. You can try to repurpose high-availability and backup tools, but good luck with that. Most aren't virtualization-aware. This, in a nutshell, is the problem that fresh-out-of-stealth RiverMeadow Software hopes to solve with its enCloud SaaS."