Management: Caution needed over decision to migrate

The Financial Times

...Indeed, some companies, particularly those most recently founded, already do everything on the cloud.

"We don't own a single server and we never plan to," says Chris Barbin, the chief executive of Appirio, based in San Francisco.

Given that Appirio is a company that offers other businesses help in moving to the cloud, this stance is perhaps not surprising. But the cloud does give the 600-person business an enviable agility.

Mr Barbin says: "We acquired a company and, on the day the acquisition was announced, we had all the staff from the acquired company already up on our internal social networking system. In the old days you couldn't even requisition a server in less than a few weeks."...

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