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Cloud migration services companies: Find the Right Cloud Migration Services for You in 2021

Jeremy Schaller

Are you planning a cloud migration soon and looking for the right company or services to help you?

 

Look no further, you’ve come to the right place.

 

As one of the leaders of a data center services provider myself, I know how to evaluate cloud migration companies. 

 

Need to find cloud migration services based in a particular area? No problem. We cover which companies cover which areas. 

 

Need to find cloud migration services with a particular specialty? I’ve gone ahead and evaluated each data center migration consulting company by their expertise in each area. 

 

Unsure which cloud migration services companies are most trustworthy or most established? I’ve evaluated the reviews across several sites for each, as well as analyzed the sentiment among sys admins, IT directors, IT managers, CTOs, CIOs, CEOs, Cloud architects, and generally every type of stakeholder involved with cloud migrations. 

 

Before we jump in though, I will say that if you already know which cloud platform you want to migrate to, it might make sense to check out their partner directories. AWS has a partner directory for example that gives good high level overviews, certifications, and locations. 

 

As opposed to a list of all the best partners for migration to one cloud platform, the purpose of this article is more to share what I’ve found to be the most promising cloud migration companies across all niches. 

Our List of Top Cloud Migration Companies

keyrus cloud migration services

Keyrus

Among the cloud migration companies and digital transformation companies on this list, Keyrus is probably the most well rounded on the Business Intelligence (BI) side.They seem to invest well in R&D and data science. 

 

If your project is less “I just want to run my apps in the cloud” and more “how can I use the cloud to maximize the performance of every digital system and process we have” then they seem like a valuable option. 

Year founded

1996

Headquarters

France, though they have several other headquarters in other countries. 

Area served

Global

Cloud migration Services

Keyrus recently expanded their cloud migration services with the addition of RunAsCloud. 

 

They’ve got good AWS, WMware, and Azure chops, and RunAsCloud was founded by one of the original AWS Solution Architects. 

Other Services

Revenues

$100 to $500 Million USD

Number of employees

1001 to 5000 employees

Industries

Certifications and Awards 

Reviews

G2

N/A

Glassdoor

4 stars with 641 votes

Clutch.co 

4.8 stars with 8 reviews

FeaturedCustomers

N/A

Google

4.9 stars with 27 reviews across 2 locations

Gartner

N/A

Sentiment

They definitely seem to know their data science, at least. Talking to guys in the business intelligence industry specifically, I heard a lot of negative feedback about the larger firms. The ones who had worked with Keyrus had good things to say. The cloud migration folks are pretty well respected as well. 

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Coastal Cloud

Year founded

2012

Headquarters

Palm Coast, Florida

Area served

Primarily the US

Cloud Migration Services

Coastal Cloud specializes primarily in migrations to Salesforce or helping companies leverage Salesforce in general, though they also provide consulting services for implementation of Hubspot, Gainsight, AccountingSeed, and other similar platforms. 

They seem to be more affordable than some of the larger salesforce consulting companies. 

Other Services / Expertise

Revenues

$40.2M per year

Number of employees

341

Industries

Salesforce Consulting

Certifications and Awards 

Reviews

Salesforce AppExchange

4.9 stars

G2

5 stars with 127 reviews

Glassdoor

4.7 stars with 32 reviews

Google 

5 stars with 13 reviews

Trustpilot

No profile listed

FeaturedCustomers

4.8 stars at 359 ratings

Gartner

N/A

Sentiment

Basically everybody I talked to said the same thing. They’re good people and they’re good at what they do.

Overall Assessment

If you’re looking for a company to help you migrate to Salesforce, they definitely seem to be worth a look. 

Read More About Coastal Cloud

 

Spaulding Ridge

Spaulding Ridge specializes in consulting for enterprise digital transformation through integrated cloud. 

Year founded

2016

Headquarters

Chicago, IL

Area served

Global, though their presence is mostly in the US. 

Cloud migration Services

Spaulding ridge would be a good contender if you need to migrate your systems to one of their partner services, like

In other words, they could be a good pick as a consultant to help you implement some of the above typical business management technologies in the cloud. 

 

They don’t seem like the natural choice if you have an enormous library of workloads running in-house currently that you need to migrate and optimize in AWS or the like. 

Other Services

Revenues

$10M to $50M

Number of employees

From their website, 250 cloud experts, so at least 250 employees

Industries

Certifications and Awards 

Reviews

G2

4.7 stars with 16 reviews

Glassdoor

4.6 stars with 42 votes

Google 

No Google reviews showing for the company. 

Trustpilot

Not listed

FeaturedCustomers

Not listed on their platform

Gartner

N/A

Sentiment

General consensus seems to be that they’re pretty good people, but there isn’t a lot of discussion online about this company. At the very least, I can’t find anything glaringly negative about them. 

Read More About Spaulding Ridge

Overall Assessment

If you’re considering any of the platforms they partner with, they’re worth a conversation at least. 

2nd Watch

2nd Watch is a pretty well reviewed but smaller venture backed company that specializes in cloud migration and digital transformation services. 

Year founded

2010

Parent Company

Temasek Holdings – owned by the government of singapore. 

Headquarters

Liberty Lake, Washington.

Area served

They’ve done global, but their only locations are in the United States.

Cloud migration Services

They provide pretty much all the services you would expect of a company that’s specialized in cloud migrations. 

Overall, I’d say if you’re looking for a managed public cloud provider and you don’t need all the bells and whistles that come from one of the largest cloud migration companies, they’re worth a look. 

 

They seem fairly provider agnostic, as they’re partnered with Azure, Google Cloud, VMware, and AWS. 

 

I wouldn’t consider them if you have a complex multinational project that might require the staff of a larger consulting firm to handle, or a project that’s more hybrid cloud related and not as suited to a managed public cloud provider. 

Other Services

They’re pretty much just specialized in Cloud Migration and Cloud Consulting Services. 

Revenues

Estimated around $30M to $50M

Number of employees

215

Industries

IT services

Certifications and Awards

Sentiment

They’re a smaller company, so there’s really not much discussion out there about them, and most of the IT decision makers I asked didn’t have much to say about them.  

Reviews

Google 

They don’t have a google business set up to receive reviews as far as I can see. 

G2

They don’t have listed reviews on G2. 

Featured Customers 2nd Watch Reviews

4.7 stars with 1171 ratings. 

Gartner 2nd Watch Reviews

4.9 stars with 9 reviews

Glassdoor 2nd Watch Reviews

3.9 stars with 50 votes

Read More About 2nd Watch

Navisite, Inc.

Navisite in its current iteration is the recent product of a merger. RDX, a full-stack services provider, merged with three managed services providers: Clckwrk, ClearDB, and Navisite, the latter of which became the de facto brand name moving forward. 

Navisite Cloud Migration Services

Navisite mostly specializes in mid-market customers between $100 Million and $2 Billion in size. 

They are a reasonable option to consider if you want to move to a hybrid cloud based in their data centers. For example, if you wanted to house your workloads in a private cloud on their data centers, then run some workloads with Microsoft Azure, vSphere, or AWS. 

 

If you want to do significant work with Kubernetes, Containers, or similar cloud-native technologies, I wouldn’t recommend using Navisite; it’s evidently not their specialty. 

 

I wouldn’t recommend them if you’re a startup. 

 

I also wouldn’t recommend them if you are looking to run workloads in Google Cloud.

Navisite Year founded

1996

Navisite Headquarters

Andover, Massachusetts

Navisite Area served

Global

Navisite Other Services

Digital Transformation

Cloud Managed Hosting Services

Database services

Colocation

SaaS enablement services

Desktop as a Service

Content delivery network services

Infrastructure as a Service

Security Services

Cloud Marketplaces

Partnerships

App management, implementation, and consulting, E.G. ERP, CRM, BPR, BI

Software QA and Testing

App development and implementation

 

In other words, they also provide hosting, managed infrastructure, colocation, PaaS, and lifecycle management for business app suites like SQL, Oracle, Peoplesoft, Microsoft Dynamics, Microsoft Exchange, etc. 

Navisite Revenues

$126.1 Million USD

Navisite Number of employees

650

Navisite Industries

IT infrastructure

IT services

Hosting

Navisite Certifications

Navisite Reviews

G2

Most of their reviews were written for their services as a colocation provider, but they are rated at 4.7 out of 5 with 33 reviews

Featuredcustomers.com

They have over 1700 ratings at 4.7 out of 5

Navisite Sentiment

There honestly isn’t a lot of discussion online about Navisite compared to some of the largest cloud services providers. 

 

What is out there isn’t particularly encouraging. They were often called “spectrum enterprise” because they were owned by the same parent company, Charter. Internet Service Providers aren’t exactly known for being loved businesses, so that’s something to be aware of, though they’ve since been “acquired by RDX.” Time will tell if that improves Navisite or worsens it. 

 

What is a bit confusing is that if you try to go to the RDX website, you’ll find the announcement that “RDX is now navisite” and get forwarded to navisite’s website. Usually the acquired company goes under the acquiring company’s umbrella, not the other way around. 

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Infogain

Infogain is aptly branded with the slogan “engineering business outcomes.” They’re one of the larger firms. 

 

As such, they seem to have a diverse skill set to help you implement a wide range of digital transformation projects. In general they seem to be pretty capable at using technology to engineer solutions to business problems. 

 

While they do offer cloud migration services, it seems they’re more suited to their particular niche, so I’d recommend them only for certain use cases, not as a general purpose cloud migration company. 

Year founded

1990

Headquarters

Los Gatos, CA

Area served

Global, with locations in India, Singapore, the UK, the UAE, and the US

Cloud migration Services

So they have a few case studies demonstrating that they’ve handled some tricky cloud migrations of workloads into the cloud. 

 

They seem pretty vendor agnostic in terms of cloud providers, as they have case studies and/or partnerships with AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure. 

 

They seem to specialize in migrations having to do with front-end or customer facing technologies. This makes sense given their platform and program engineering background. 

 

That’s something to keep in mind if you consider them for cloud migration consulting services.

Other Services

So they’ve got a pretty comprehensive service suite. 

Revenues

$100-$500 Million

Number of employees

According to their website, 5000+, though glassdoor lists them at 1000-5000 and another source put it around 4000. 

Industries

IT consulting

IT infrastructure

Digital Service Automation

Software Product Engineering

Cloud 

Certifications and Awards 

They’ve won several awards from Everest Group for QA, engineering

They were recognized by Zinnov Jones for Platform engineering, QA, and UX services

Reviews

G2

5 stars with 1 review

Glassdoor

3.9 stars with 1,834 reviews

Google 

N/A

Trustpilot

N/A

FeaturedCustomers

N/A

Gartner

4 stars with 1 review

Sentiment

They seem to have a pretty good reputation, and even among clients from some of the bigger fortune ranked companies. 

Overall Assessment 

If you’re in the retail, insurance, or a high tech industry, or you’re looking for a company with a lot of platform engineering or software engineering know-how, then I think they’re worth a look. 

Read More About Infogain

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