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CLAIR SHORES, Mich., October 24, 2017 – WSM International, the leader in cloud and server migration services, has launched a new service, Environment Evaluation, to help organizations determine if their hosted computing infrastructure is properly sized for current and future needs.

IT systems examined during the evaluation process can include hardware, software, database, networking or any other technical aspect of the hosted environment. The resulting report will tell the customer if systems are underperforming and/or if their organization is overpaying for resources they’ll never fully use.

The WSM Environment Evaluation includes:

• An inventory of the current programs, services, and applications running in the environment
• Details on CPU, memory, load average, and disk usage
• Security, Performance, and Transformation recommendations, if applicable
• Competitive cost analysis of up to four hosting providers
• WSM migration recommendations and estimate
• Potential cost savings calculation

“Since 2003, WSM has completed thousands of migrations and when we are involved in advising on best practices from the start of the project, we make sure that the customer migrates to the correctly-sized environment,” said Ryan Pelerin, CEO of WSM. “But this isn’t always the case. As many as half of all migrations don’t move to a properly sized environment. Many organizations just move their IT systems with little or no thought as to whether or not their current or planned configuration makes technical or economic sense. With our Environment Evaluation service, we are automating more than 14 years of WSM migration expertise to ensure that the new hosted infrastructure makes economic, technical and operational sense before making the actual move. In our experience, we’ve helped organizations reduce their hosting costs by more than 50 percent.”

About WSM International
WSM International (https://www.wsmintl.com) is a specialized services and solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation, and DevOps services. WSM created the specialized migration services category in 2003, and today is one of the largest specialized migration services providers in the world.

SAN JOSE and ST. CLAIR SHORES, Mich., August 10, 2017 – RiverMeadow Software Inc., a leading provider of server migration automation technology, and WSM International, the leader in cloud and server migration services, have partnered to deliver a new service that helps mid-market and large enterprise companies move computing workloads to Amazon Web Services (AWS), Azure, Google Cloud and other hosting platforms. Now, companies looking for trusted expertise and execution when moving to the public or private cloud can easily avail themselves of the tools and services and years of experience offered by RiverMeadow and WSM.

The new service is available immediately to customers that are thinking about or already engaged in a move to the cloud.

“WSM and RiverMeadow have successfully completed some very complex migrations over the past year, migrating hundreds of servers for customers, so this agreement really formalizes our relationship,” said Jim Jordan, president and CEO of RiverMeadow. “The services delivered by WSM have proven to be a perfect complement to our migration software technology so that together we’ve been moving customers to the cloud on time, on budget and with no disruption to business operations.”

WSM executives have joined the RiverMeadow industry advisory board to provide input on product direction so that the cross-hypervisor, Lift & Shift server migration software efficiently automates as much as possible the process of moving workloads to cloud computing.

“We have experience with all types of automation software for cloud migrations and have found RiverMeadow’s among the best,” said Ryan Pelerin, founder and CEO of WSM. “Plus, the RiverMeadow support has been outstanding so we’ve already made great strides together in our relationship and efforts to make server migrations to cloud as cost effective and easy as possible for our customers.”

RiverMeadow software automates the core processes of collecting, converting and deploying the application stack from the source to the target cloud environment. WSM adds services, as needed, to complete the server to cloud migration. WSM cloud transformation professional services include consulting, discovery, assessment and migration planning, migration, configuration, development, DevOps, load testing, security and penetration testing to ensure a comprehensive and successful cloud adoption experience for every customer.

In addition, WSM will deploy its exclusive Cloud Catalyst workload assessment tool, which will be available on the AWS Marketplace in Q4 2017 and on the Microsoft Azure Marketplace shortly thereafter. It performs rapid discovery of tens to thousands of servers to assist in migration planning. Cloud Catalyst helps determine the time and costs associated with moving workloads out of the data center to the cloud, or from cloud to cloud. It’s the first tool of its kind that can estimate the level of effort and cost to migrate. The two companies plan to fully integrate RiverMeadow’s Pre-Flight Check server verification tool with Cloud Catalyst to identify servers that are immediately ready for migration using RiverMeadow’s software.

Availability

Businesses looking for information on how to engage the expertise of RiverMeadow and WSM for their cloud migration initiative can email sales@wsmintl.com or call 888-899-7940.

About RiverMeadow

RiverMeadow is a Software Enabled Services Company that provides a broad range of best in class cloud migration services. RiverMeadow solves the challenge of migrating large, complex workloads cross hypervisors into and between cloud environments. We leverage proprietary and non-proprietary automation tools for migrating physical, virtual and cloud-based servers into and between public, private and hybrid clouds. For more information, visit www.rivermeadow.com or follow the company on Twitter at @RiverMeadow1 and LinkedIn.

About WSM International

WSM International is a specialized services and solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation, and DevOps services. WSM created the specialized migration services category in 2003, and today is the one of the largest specialized migration services providers in the world.  For more information, visit https://www.wsmintl.com.

CLAIR SHORES, Mich., August 7, 2017 – WSM International, a specialized cloud and IT integrator, introduces two new services to ensure cloud and IT infrastructure security, compliance and efficient operation:

• Penetration testing services to assess IT security vulnerabilities and help protect data;
• Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS) compliance testing service.

Both services address the top security concerns found in the recent user survey by 451 Research: preventing infiltration of enterprise IT systems by those with malicious intent; and complying with security standards.

“There are two big differences in what we provide – one, these services are performed by engineers not automated software bots, and two, we go beyond delivering a report to recommend and, if desired, implement solutions to address the shortcomings we find,” said Ryan Pelerin, CEO of WSM. “By delivering these services, we are helping to address the industry issue related to scarcity of skills for improving IT security.”

The 451 Research report, “Information Security Trends,” showed staffing for information security was one of the top pain points for enterprise technology and IT professionals.

To begin penetration testing, WSM performs a risk assessment to understand what vulnerabilities might exist, then evaluates the risk of potential damage from a vulnerability. To finish, WSM mitigates the vulnerability. Along the way, WSM provides detailed information for each vulnerability uncovered, including suggested remediation or mitigation steps for sufficient and strong security controls.

“Simply put, we perform threat detection, investigation to identify potential problems and then address what it will take to remediate issues,” said Pelerin.

This type of proactive security precaution is intended to build stronger defenses in IT by protecting backdoors waiting to be exploited, identifying system, software and application flaws and improper configurations, as well as examining encryption to ensure it is working optimally. The WSM penetration testing service includes servers, networks, workstations, printers, mobile and Internet of Things (IoT) devices, as well as web, cloud and mobile applications, plus online services like Facebook.

This service is priced according to the size and complexity of the IT infrastructure starting at $1,799. For additional information and to obtain a free price quote, go to https://wsmintl.com/enterprise/security/penetration-testing/.

In addition, WSM introduces a PCI compliance testing service, which applies to any company that accepts, processes and stores card payment data through mobile, online, or physical scanning. PCI compliance must be met by the website/application that is processing credit cards and requires meeting specific procedural compliance measures, including how the credit card data is handled at both the datacenter and server levels. This isn’t a one-time exam, but rather an ongoing process as certain merchant and PCI levels require a third-party penetration test audit every six months.

The PCI compliance testing service starts at $2,395. More information, and to obtain specific pricing, can be found at https://wsmintl.com/enterprise/security/compliance/.

Both of these new services are extensions to WSM’s existing security services, plus other offerings that include migration services, development services, DevOps services, support services and maintenance services.

“In both cases – penetration testing and PCI compliance – we were asked on multiple occasions to help customers so we decided to deliver these more broadly as packaged services,” said Pelerin.

About WSM International
WSM International (https://www.wsmintl.com) is a specialized services and solutions integrator with a core focus on cloud and server migration, transformation, and DevOps services. WSM created the server migration services industry in 2003, and today is the largest specialized migration services provider in the world, having completed more migrations than all other competing service providers – combined.

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