{"id":15935,"date":"2015-07-16T09:41:16","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T09:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/?p=230261"},"modified":"2015-07-16T09:41:16","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T09:41:16","slug":"freeport-mcmoran-moves-its-apps-into-hybrid-cloud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/freeport-mcmoran-moves-its-apps-into-hybrid-cloud\/","title":{"rendered":"Freeport-McMoRan moves its apps into hybrid cloud"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_221872\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/mining.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-221872\" src=\"http:\/\/www.businesscloudnews.com\/files\/2015\/04\/mining-300x196.jpg\" alt=\"Freeport-McMoRan has given itself five years to complete the cloud migration\" width=\"300\" height=\"196\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Freeport-McMoRan has given itself five years to complete the cloud migration<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Copper and gold producer Freeport-McMoRan is embarking on a five-year project aimed at migrating its core IT applications over to a hybrid cloud platform. The company said the move is aimed at helping it become more agile and reduce overall IT spending.<\/p>\n<p>Freeport-McMoRan is migrating to a system developed by Accenture and based on Microsoft Azure; the company said its core applications will be deployed on a combination of private and public cloud platforms, with Avanade and Accenture offering up a series of tools helping the company automate and manage its workloads.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis program brings innovation and cloud economics to bear as we work to become more agile, drive increased revenue, and continue our focus on items that impact mine production,\u201d said Bertrand Odinet, vice president and chief information officer of Freeport-McMoRan.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBy partnering with Accenture, we will gain the ability to grow our service portfolio and scale our IT services in line with our global business requirements,\u201d Odinet said.<\/p>\n<p>Amy K. Dale, managing director and client account lead, Accenture said: \u201cWe are collaborating with Freeport-McMoRan to help them evolve to an everything \u2018as-a-service\u2019 model, giving them the ability to easily provision new capabilities, reduce risk associated with vendor \u2018lock-in\u2019 and enable them to scale their IT services up and down as needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Freeport-McMoRan is the latest natural resource firm to move its core applications into the cloud. In April this year Rio Tinto announced a partnership with Accenture that will see it move the bulk of its application landscape to Accenture\u2019s public cloud service in a bid to save costs and switch to an \u201cas-a-service\u201d IT model.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Copper and gold producer Freeport-McMoRan is embarking on a five-year project aimed at migrating its core IT applications over to a hybrid cloud platform. The company said the move is aimed at helping it become more agile and reduce overall IT spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":105,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2263,2996,2898,2997,1989,2998,1976],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accenture","category-amy-k-dale","category-avanade","category-bertrand-odinet","category-enterprise-it","category-freeport-mcmoran","category-news-analysis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/105"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15935"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15936,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15935\/revisions\/15936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}