Cloud: Scale without capital cost

Eircom's adoption of Amazon Web Services highlights how the cloud is creating new business partnerships for the benefit of both customer and provider, writes Ian Campbell.

Jason O'Conaill, principal of Eircom Cloud and Data Centres.

Eircom has devised a cloud strategy to secure its place in the new world of ICT delivery, facilitating its customers with fast and secure access to secure computing power from Amazon Web Services.

"We used to build our own cloud systems, investing millions of euro in our data centre," said Jason O'Conaill, principal of Eircom Cloud and Data Centres. "Customers experience the services they want from us in fundamentally the same way, but ...