The activeIT operated its own on-premises infrastructureto successfully implement the solutions for its end customers. With the steadily growing requirements for storage capacity and performance, the the question arose for the company as to whether the enormous effort required to operate and and expansion and expansion of its own infrastructure was worthwhile. In particular, the lifecycle management of the hardware and the high costs presented activeIT with a challenge. With regard to the goal of also meeting future customer requirements in the form of security, flexibility flexibility and scalability scalability, it quickly became clear that, from an economic as well as and ecological point of view, it made little sense to expand the infrastructure itself.