Sailthru moved its infrastructure off AWS cloud to co-location in 2012
Ian White · Ian White, Sailthru // Data Driven NYC 23 // January 2014 (Hosted by FirstMark Capital) · Mar 3, 2014 · at 7:50
Ian White, CTO and co-founder of Sailthru, details why the company transitioned from cloud hosting to dedicated co-location infrastructure.
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“By 2012, our ops team had grown to the size where it made sense, both on a capex basis and on an operational basis, just to move off of the cloud, to move our infrastructure off of AWS and into our own colo.”
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