Sometimes it happens for quite anecdotal reasons. At one company it was because MD did not like the humming noise coming from their server room just over the corridor.
So IT department got an order to scrap servers and move everything to the cloud. They weren't happy. In a true BOFH spirit they contemplated splashing few grand on soundproofing and setting up a company à la "Cloudy McCloudface Ltd." to issue invoices. But eventually they chose to be good sports and went for a reliable colocation company. Which happened to have "Certified Cloud Solutions Provider" prominently written on their marketing brochure.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
