Platform Computing customer Harvard Medical School speaks on why they went with a cloud solution.   

How a CIO made a business case for a cloud computing solution

The business of Harvard Medical School (HMS) is research, "like big pharma," according to Marcos Athanasoulis, CIO of the institution, which is based in Boston, across the river from its parent university. Historically, the biomedical scientists at HMS have been allowed to design their own systems for cutting-edge research. As a result, the IT department was scrambling to support a variety of standards, systems and protocols in an environment that was growing like a sci-fi nightmare.