Mi9’s secret is out: ‘all-in’ on public cloud
December 1, 2014
Grazed from ITNews. Author: Brett Winterford.
Mi9 has dramatically improved the speed at which it can deliver new websites, apps and features and additionally halved its data centre footprint via an aggressive adoption of public cloud and a restructure of its IT operations around the concept of DevOps.
The media company, formerly known as Ninemsn, is wholly owned by Channel Nine after Microsoft divested its share in the company in late 2013. Under the new ownership structure, the company can now open up about its plans to go ‘all-in’ on public cloud – and not, as previously anticipated, with Microsoft…
The company hosted its new Sitecore content management system in AWS in December 2012, and has progressively morphed into an ‘all-in’ AWS shop since. Mi9 is now in the process of migrating all its legacy information technology assets – which includes every back office system including finance, payroll, directory services and workflow tools – into the public cloud, and is rapidly shrinking its on-premises footprint…
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