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Pharmaceutical firm retires Microsoft environment for cloud services
“We call it the five-headed dragon,” says McBride about the cloud strategy he put forward calling for use of cloud services for authentication and access, the file system, communications and client management. “I don’t think firewalls are necessary. They prohibit work from being accomplished.”
Network World – Amag Pharmaceuticals, based in Lexington, Mass., has almost eliminated its internal server network, and couldn’t be happier about it. That’s because the company, with about 240 employees, is now largely riding on cloud services.
Amag’s almost-extinct Windows and Exchange server network had not been well-maintained, cobbled together by employees without oversight of an information-technology division at all, says Nathan McBride, the executive director of IT for the firm. He says he joined the company about three years ago with the express agreement to move the pharma company’s network to the cloud.
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Company employees had simply gone out and bought what they thought was needed, whether it was laptops, a T-1 line or a switch. But management of it all, especially the Exchange 2003 server, was neglected because there was no one really in charge. But McBride said his goal in becoming the founding member of the IT department wasn’t to make the internal network bigger — it was to shrink it down through a “cloud strategy.”
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