I read with interest the cull of jobs at Microsoft. The giant has
stirred and woken up to the fact that,
according to their statistics, Microsoft's
operating systems are now only used on 14% of devices, if you take into account
smartphones and tablets. Their new CEO goes on to say that they need to
be “mobile-first, cloud-first".
Adopting cloud-based business applications are massively
more efficient than using in-house maintained software or taking a halfway
house approach of outsourcing the business application to the supplier’s own
datacentre.
At Vacancy Filler we took a fundamental approach to using
Amazon Web Services, allowing us to take
control of the design, build and installation of our infrastructure hosted by
Amazon. The scale of computing power on tap for us, and our customers, is
simply staggering. We simply do not need the overheads and complexity of
building and maintaining our own datacentre.
Instead we
use Amazon’s resources to build and
configure an infrastructure significantly
more scalable and robust than any datacentre that we could design. This
gives us the elasticity to flex the service depending on user demand.
Cloud computing makes our software ubiquitous. Recruiters,
Hiring Managers and Candidates can login and use our system wherever they are,
and on any device they choose, without the need to buy or install a Microsoft
product. I guess the recent news at Microsoft is not altogether
surprising.
Tony Brookes
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