Cloud computing success stories and
case studies by vertical industry.
These companies are following the path
into the cloud.
BioSciences and Pharmaceutical
- The New Computing Pioneers: by Rick Mullin. May 2009
- Amazon's EC2 Dominates Discussion of Pharma's Cloud Computing Pilot Projects: by Vivien Marx. May 2009
- Lilly Pulls New Meds Out Of The Cloud: in InformationWeek September 2009
- Schrödinger Partners with Cycle Computing to Provide Cloud Computing Solutions
- Amylin: Laying the Groundwork for Cloud Computing Adoption in 6 Steps
- LI-COR Goes Live With CloudCraze for eCommerce
- Seattle Biomedical Research Institute (SBRI), a large, independent, nonprofit organization on infectious disease research, improves IT by switching from on-premise human resource management system (HRMS) to UltiPro Software-as-a-Service (SaaS).
- Glaxo Smith-Kline moving to Microsoft Online Services to reduce our IT operational costs by roughly 30%.
- Genentech uses Google Apps for e-mail and to create documents and spreadsheets, bypassing capital investments in servers and software licenses.
Construction
- The Google-ization of Bechtel: Bechtel transforms its IT department after Internet front-runners YouTube, Google, Amazon.com and Salesforce.com; paid for by re-allocation of the budgets that otherwise would have been used for refresh and maintenance.
The SaaS model allows us "to bring in a different cost model that can afford us to have a high-capacity, global, collaborative work environment," Bechtel CIO Geir Ramleth says.
The risk for enterprises that don't start a SaaS migration strategy soon is that their IT organizational structures will be a competitive disadvantage, Ramleth warns.
- RedBuilt switches from SAP to NetSuite in 86 days. $300K annual TCO savings.
Defense
- Cloud Power: AGI and GeoEye Gain Agility and Efficiency: by Bob Lozano. 2009
- Cloud Computing in the Department of Defense?: by IntelFusion
- Federal News Radio on Cloud Computing from the US Army, Lockheed Martin, and DISA.
- DISA Opens DOD Cloud: Defense Information Service Agency opened phase two of its infrastructure-as-a-service clooud to Defense Department customers by Cloud Computing Journal
- US Intelligence Community: Deploying cutting edge threat detection applications on a scale not previously thought economically practical.
- Hill Air Force Base migrates from a monolithic, proprietary, static, and costly mainframe environment to a state-of-the art, open, dynamic, and cost-effective cloud architecture. (see page 33)
Education
- U-C Berkeley Cloud Computing Success Story and more on benefits to education field
Energy and Utilities
Financial
- Tech Talk: Payments Firm Tries Cloud Computing by Elizabeth Wasserman. June 2009
- Nasdaq Data Products created a new product called Market Replay that enables brokerage firms to show customers and regulators that best-execution requirements were met for a given trade using Amazon S3. (see second part of article)
- Delphi Capital Management benefits from moving data storage to the cloud
Food and Beverage
- Cloud Computing: Distribution:
Coca-Cola Enterprises uses a cloud-based system to streamline operations with merchandisers in the field. Business Week. June 2009 - NetSuite delivers cloud computing to fast food chain: October, 2009
Government
- White House Unveils Cloud Computing Initiative: by Daniel Terdiman. Sept 2009
- US Government Gets Cloud Computing Right: Project Nebula
- Los Angeles City Council approves US$7.25 million five-year deal to adopt Gmail and other Google Apps
- Library of Congress: DuraCloud (DuraSpace) – cloud optimized design.
Library of Congress and DuraCloud Launch Pilot Program Using Cloud Technologies to Test Perpetual Access to Digital Content Service as Part of National Digital Information Infrastructure and Preservation Program - CloudBench launches cloud services for 30 municipalities with Force.com
- Korean Government to invest $172 million in cloud infrastructure
- National Business Center a business management systems and services provider across the Department of the Interior delivers private and hybrid cloud solutions. (page 32)
- Government CIOs answer Vivek Kundra's cloud computing services call to arms
- List and brief description of global government cloud initiatives
Healthcare
- Harris Corporation Demonstrates Secure Exchange of Public Health Information in “Cloud” Computing Environment: September, 2009
- Harris releases CONNECT open-source solution, a gateway to the NHIN enabling federal agencies and private sector health entities to securely exchange electronic patient information.: May, 2010
- RehabCare transforms business with Force.com: November, 2009
- AMN Healthcare goes live with Workday Human Resources: December, 2009
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center addresses local insurance payers' and federal electronic health record (EHR) mandates with cloud solutions. (see page 30)
- Bosley Medical Institute consolidates applications with five SaaS vendors.
Information Technology
- How Cloud Computing Is Changing the World by Rachael King
- The Benefits of the All SAAS Shop Money Application Integration and Did We Mention Money?: by C.G. Lynch
While many companies have dabbled with adopting software as a service, one CIO at an open-source database vendor has taken the plunge. "On premise" software applications have become a thing of the past.
Insurance Companies
- Narragansett Bay Insurance Company has selected Exigen’s SaaS PolicyCoreTM, BillingCoreTM and DistributionCoreTM for its new policy administration, underwriting and billing systems.
- AAA Northern California, Nevada and Utah has selected Exigen Insurance Solutions’ SaaS underwriting, policy administration and billing solutions for auto, homeowners and all other personal lines of business for its operations spanning 18 states.
Internet Companies
- Cloud Computing: The SmugMug Approach to Using Amazon's EC2 and S3: by Don Macaskill. August 2008
- eHarmony puts Amazon Map Reduce to the Test: by George Lawton. June 2009
- Amazon Cloud Computing Client Case Studies Page
- Amazon Showcases Digital Chalk Cloud Computing Success. : February 2008
- M-Dot-Network Cloud Prototyping and Performance Testing: by Mike Kavis, 2009
- Sopima launches Contact Management Solution on Azure, November 2009
Legal
Media and Entertainment
- NYTimes AWS Cloud Computing Mistake Cost $240: by Nicholas Carr. November 2008
- 2008 Olympics on NBC: Cloud computing for content delivery. 28M media files served. $1B revenue from online media & advertising.
Products
- Nikon saves $14 million with open source cloud CRM from RightNow: by ComputerWorld in October 2009
- Electronics manufacturer Sanmina SCI shifts 16000 global employees to Google Apps.
Sports
- US Tennis Association: in process of migrating all of our back-end systems into the cloud to save 70 percent of the historical cost of hosting these systems.
- Formula 1 Team Uses Cloud Computing for Grand Prix success
Telecommunications
- BT Mosaic (British Telecom) – hosted SaaS solution – ITV store (media) – hybrid cloud
Technology
- Citrix improves profitability with Supply Chain cloud analytics from Birst
Transportation and Logistics
- US Post Office Hops a Ride on NetSuite's Cloud
- FedEx Deploys an Appistry Cloud: by Maureen O'Gara
- European Space Agency Moving to the Cloud: Saving 50% over in-house hardware with Amazon EC2.
- Extra Space Storage the self-service storage space provider with 685 facilities and 2,500 employees funds new initiatives with cloud computing savings.
- Kenworth Trucking Saves $400 per Truck per Year with Cloud Computing