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Appirio's $1 Million Dollar Cloudsourcing Guarantee

Appirio will run your IT in the cloud, and save you at least a million dollars

Cloudsourcing means sourcing complete solutions to run your business on the cloud, through a combination of cloud applications, cloud platforms and cloud infrastracuture. Appirio guarantees $1 million in savings for qualified companies that "cloudsource" their entire IT to Appirio and the public cloud. To nominate yourself and see if you qualify, answer this short survey.

Why are we offering the $1 Million savings guarantee?

We are so confident in the cloudsourcing approach that we wanted to put money where our mouth is. We have run our own business from the beginning as a serverless enterprise. We've grown our business 400% over the past 2 years, we spend about 3% of our revenue on a world class 'virtual cloud suite' and supporting IT services, and have no capital tied up in IT infrastructure. We've experienced the benefits of running our entire business in the cloud, and work with customers every day who are taking steps in that same direction across their IT portfolios. Now, we're ready to put some skin in the game for companies ready to move entirely to the cloud.

Why should you participate?

Enterprise adoption of the cloud is accelerating.  More and more companies are asking how they can get out of the business of running a data center-—Gartner predicts that 20% of companies will own no IT assets by 2012. Running your business entirely on the cloud is different. Entire categories of spending will drop away, and you'll have an IT infrastructure that's flexible enough to adapt to the changing needs of your business.

CIOs don't want to underake this journey alone, but struggle to find a partner to help them make the transition to cloud computing. Their traditional partners have too much to lose to move from the status quo, and have expertise in all the wrong areas-—it doesn't matter anymore how good they are at managing a server farm and multi-year, waterfall based big bang projects are a thing of the past.

Appirio can help. We offer a combination of products and services that allow you to move entirely to the cloud: Cloud Strategy, Cloud Migration, Cloud Development, and Cloud Management. Our approach is iterative, innovative, marries together the best of breed cloud solutions out there today-—and its guaranteed now!

How does it work?

If you qualify, Appirio will work with you to put together a business-case roadmap to move entirely to the cloud. If you decide to outsource the execution of that roadmap to us, we'll manage the migration of your entire IT infrastructure to a pre-integrated suite of leading cloud applications and platforms.

When we're done, your IT spend that year will be at least $1M less than it would have been with your on-premise infrastructure. If its not, we'll do everything we can to make up the difference. We'll manage your IT for free, investing up to a million dollars of our cloud expertise to make the situation right.

Of course, there's more fine print, but the bottom line is simple: Cloudsourcing is a long term relationship, with significant investment from both sides. Now, our customers can enjoy more of the benefits in moving to the cloud, with Appirio helping to shoulder and mitigate some of the risks.

Am I eligibile?

Eligibility criteria is pretty straightforward. If you answer "Yes" to the following questions, you could qualify.

1. Are you willing and able to move your business entirely to the cloud?
2. Are you able to bring together your IT and business leadership to work with Appirio on a cloud roadmap? 
3. Do you employ more than 500 people, and spend more than $5M a year on software, hardware, IT personnel, and outsourcing?

If so, read all the details and apply for the guarantee here.