“ We built the ability to be very agile,” Greg says.“ If need be, we could pull one data centre down and move operations to another.”
As commercial cloud platforms matured and became less expensive, TROY began migrating its workloads. The result today is a hybrid cloud model – a blend of private on-premises infrastructure and commercial cloud services – that Greg believes is the perfect combination.
For systems that require close control or are intrinsic to daily operations, TROY has its own data centres. For workloads where scale matters more than uniqueness, commercial cloud platforms are available.
“ By running a hybrid cloud environment, we have kind of the best of both worlds,” he says.“ We can still control our destiny on some products that are local. In the larger environments where scale is more important, we have absolutely embraced cloud, and it has worked extraordinarily well for us.”
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