Abstract

Evernote, a note taking app developed by US-based Evernote Corporation, was available over the browser as well as on Android- and iOS-based devices. It was a powerful storage and retrieval system for documents and data. It could store everything from PDFs, spreadsheets, documents, videos, emails, etc. Evernote maintained its own servers and networks to store its data. This system was supposed to give the company the flexibility to design its products in a more productive manner. But along the way, it found that maintaining servers and networks was expensive, and also affected the quality of the services provided. The company needed flexible and fast processes to make sure its customers got uninterrupted service. In September 2016, Evernote announced that it would migrate to a cloud infrastructure using the Google Cloud Platform. The migration had benefits for Evernote like reduced latency and improvement in connection consistency. Migrating to the cloud enabled the engineers at Evernote to concentrate on improving the product features instead of spending time on maintaining the physical infrastructure of the data centers.

Learning Objectives

The case is structured to achieve the following Learning Objectives:

• To understand the process of migration from physical data centers to cloud infrastructure.
• To evaluate the benefits of using cloud infrastructure.

Keywords

Evernote; Cloud Migration; Note Taking