INTRODUCTION
Midland Insulation Products (MIP) is a Carlow based manufacturing company who specialized in the manufacturing and distribution of insulation products that are employed for building. MIP has implemented Information Systems that handle Manufacturing, Warehousing & Distributions, Finances, Electronic Data Interchange (EDI), Marketing & Sales, Payroll, Customer Relation Management (CRM) & Human Resources (HR). All MIP servers are hosted, on premise and located in one of the two data centres. The CEO of MIP believes that data centres are too expensive to run and would like to work for cloud because cloud offers the best long term solution for hosting MIP servers and applications.…