Moving to the cloud: Big savings, but plan ahead Some might say that San Diego-based Amylin Pharmaceuticals was pushed into the cloud. The 23-year-old company’s data center had been running at 100% capacity and IT executives feared inevitable performance problems, but the company was reluctant to build another site due to the poor economic climate. “We had already done significant virtualizing of our servers and couldn’t cram anything more onto our data center infrastructure






