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Grid Dynamics Teams Up with Virtual Ark So Software Vendors Can Change On-Premise Software to Software-as-a-Service in Cloud Deployments

By Carolyn J Dawson
TMCnet Contributor

Grid Dynamics is an international authority on enterprise systems scalability and cloud enablement. Virtual Ark (News - Alert) is a well known global managed application services provider in next-generation SaaS for ISVs. Both these companies have recently formed a partnership. With this partnership, Independent software vendors (ISVs) now have the ability to rapidly change on-premise software to software-as-a-service (SaaS (News - Alert)) in cloud deployments. 

This is a solid partnership and will aid end users to swiftly and economically make use of high-quality software applications from reputed ISVs in an on-demand, pay-as-you-go model to address their specific requirements.

Virtual Ark teams up with ISVs in order to provide large enterprises with on-demand access to key business applications on public and/or private clouds including Amazon Web Services (News - Alert). This access is provided in a unique next-generation SaaS model.

Grid Dynamics is well known for assisting Fortune 500 companies to restructure legacy enterprise applications so they can move over to a SaaS model. The company is also well known in designing cloud deployments, highly scalable systems and highly efficient computing (HPC) solutions.

In a release, Klaus Bartosch, who is the executive vice president, of Virtual Ark said that, “Grid Dynamics has extensive expertise in system infrastructure to help convert popular legacy ISV applications to SaaS and help organizations deploy them in their unique IT environments.”

With this partnership, they can now offer all necessary resources facilitating ISVs to move their applications to cloud-deployed SaaS. In addition to this, they help end users to enhance the availability of business-critical software resources in an economical method. ISVs can utilize the assistance from Grid Dynamics to convert the ISV applications to SaaS and to deploy them according to customer needs. Virtual Ark helps in the provision of essential ongoing SaaS services.

In a release, Boris Renski, who is the executive vice president of Grid Dynamics, said that, “The popularity of SaaS on public and private clouds is growing because of its high value to enterprises. Virtual Ark’s approach to delivering SaaS equips their ISV partners with a strategic advantage and will make our customers’ transition much easier.”

Although some bigger ISVs have started this transition, lots of mid-sized ISVs are at the starting point. In order to re-architect applications, businesses of any size can get support from Grid Dynamics to convert applications rapidly and effortlessly, without affecting their daily IT operations.