Head in the clouds

Posted on 12 Nov 2010 by The Manufacturer

Malcolm Wheatley investigates cloud computing, finding that all is not all white and fluffy in the world of hosted servers.

At first glance, Workington-based Pentagon Chemicals seems unremarkable: a privately-owned manufacturer of speciality agricultural chemicals with 200 or so employees. But take a closer look and you’ll see something rather less ordinary: an ERP system housed not on in-house servers, but in the ‘cloud’, accessed over the internet. There is, undeniably, a great deal of…

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