It s Sunny Side Up in the Cloud for Eggs Bob Gilmore, Director-IT, Cal-Maine Foods
Bob Gilmore, Director-IT, Cal-Maine Foods
Cal-Maine Foods, a producer and marketer of fresh shell eggs in the USA passed the milestone of marketing over one billion dozen eggs in one year for FY 2014. Two years ago, Cal-Maine, faced with an aging IT infrastructure made a bold decision to move 100 percent of its Tier One applications to a virtualized private cloud environment managed by Virtacore, and housed in an Equinix datacenter in Reston, VA.
Before putting its trust in an IaaS (Infrastructure as a Service) model, Cal-Maine looked at public and private cloud offerings from many of the major providers. With Cal-Maine s total annual expenditure for all IT including Telephony and Cellular at less than two-tenths of 1percent of revenue, the company looks at IT expenses based on how many dozen eggs it has to sell to pay for the item or service. The goal was to partner with a compan