Hyperconverged infrastructure company Pivot3 Inc. is adding new workload migration capabilities to its Intelligent Hybrid Cloud platform, a move intended to help companies move workloads among different public cloud providers more easily.

In addition, the company is adding new disaster recovery capabilities for Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud Platform.

Pivot3 said the new capabilities, available now, were made possible thanks to its partnership with CloudEndure Ltd., which specializes in workload mobility and disaster recovery technologies. CloudEndure offers services that automate the migration of applications across different public clouds with zero downtime and no data loss in a matter of minutes, the company said.

Pivot3 officials said the updates help to further its goal of unifying on-premises infrastructures with public clouds through policy-based management and automated resource orchestration technologies. What Pivot3 does is to provide a unified interface through which companies can automate management, resource allocation, workload mobility and data placement across hybrid cloud environments. The aim is to allow its customers to realize better savings and achieve greater agility by being able to select the most appropriate infrastructure for each workload they run, and then just focus on delivering the applications and services they need for their business.

Pivot3 said workload migration is a rising use case among its customers as they increase their use of multiple clouds. In order to do this, companies need their data to be flexible and easy to move, and they also need a system that can do it in an intelligent fashion so it’s placed in the most optimal location for performance and costs benefits.

“Many enterprises are using a combination of private and public clouds because they are optimized for different workloads, security, performance and infrastructure cost models,” said John Spiers, Pivot3’s executive vice president of strategy. “Customers don’t want to be locked into a single public cloud provider.”

Tim Stammers, a senior analyst at the research firm 451 Group, said the new disaster recovery capabilities should also be welcomed by enterprises.

“Organizations of all types are using public clouds to augment their on-premises IT, and one of the most common uses is for disaster recovery,” Stammers said. “But that is not always simple to set up. By becoming a single source of both on-premises infrastructure and software that enables disaster recovery or application migration across a choice of major public clouds, Pivot3 is simplifying the path to hybrid cloud computing.”

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