A Case for the Cloud: gnowit Dr. Shahzad Khan President canarie.ca/cloud | @canarie_inc What was the business problem? Our product is essentially an information monitoring solution, so we need to be able to manage and sift through vast amounts of data sourced from the web. What were the potential solutions? To conduct ongoing product development and testing, we would need to either purchase a room full of servers, or use a commercial cloud offering. Both of these solutions would have cost money, and a startup like ours is very sensitive to incurring cost. The DAIR program was another option for us, but moving to cloud infrastructure is a big step and we were concerned about the risk. What solution was chosen? In the end we chose DAIR. DAIR enabled us to experiment with the cloud

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