Nimbula, which brands itself as the cloud operating system company, recently launched its newest cloud migration service offering to customers looking to migrate from the public cloud to private or hybrid clouds.

Many customers start their online operations on a public cloud infrastructure like Amazon’s Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) because they cannot afford the capital investment required for building their own infrastructure and/or to accommodate the rapid scale demands during their early vertical growth phase.

After the initial growth phase and as they have gained a better understanding of workload characteristics during this process, they often look to own a portion of the equipment in order to significantly reduce their operating expense and to build their own internal cloud to complement their EC2 cloud footprint.

“Customers love the flexibility and self-service aspects of public clouds such as Amazon EC2,” said Nishan Sathyanarayan, Director of Professional Services at Nimbula. “They often want those same benefits and control in a deployment model that uses both their own and public infrastructure. The only way to achieve the proper cloud economics in that case is to leverage commodity clouds and layer infrastructure and application services on top of them."

According to a company release, Nimbula’s migration service will help customers design and build a commodity cloud inside their enterprise without any of the expensive investments usually associated with traditional premium “enterprise” clouds.