With millions of consumers relying on MeteoGroup for accurate weather data, the company struggled to manage overwhelming amounts of data and the increasingly high costs associated with a legacy, on-premise data center. The company faced additional challenges, including:
- Risk of hardware failure
- Reliance on a remote, single power, single ISP server room
- Absence of automated provisioning
- Drain on resources spent on low-tech, non-revenue-driven initiatives
- Delayed and incomplete data reporting
- Loss of revenue as a result of downtime
- Lack of disaster recovery
- Limited scalability