A Case for the Cloud: topLog Patrick LaRoche Co-Founder canarie.ca/cloud | @canarie_inc What was the business problem? My colleagues and I had an idea for a cloud-based product, but it was just an idea. We needed a cloud environment that we could play around in, to explore the viability of our idea and determine if we could build an actual product around it. What were the potential solutions? We could have gone to a commercial cloud provider, but we knew that many of the free commercial cloud offerings are not always free. Like most start-ups, we didn’t have much money and couldn’t afford to buy our own infrastructure, either. What solution was chosen? DAIR gave us the ability to explore our product idea and to learn about the cloud – all for free. We knew we needed to build a min

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