<p>PageUp People said hosting its CareerPath application in the cloud is saving the company $130,000 per annum.</p><p>The Melbourne-based developer of staff management software has hosted the application with Microsoft Windows Azure. The CareerPath software allows employers manage career development of staff and identify top performers and potential flight risks. PageUp People designed the application's CareerDNA search engine with open source database tool, RavenDB.</p><p>"Without the ability to elastically scale CareerPath to peak periods using Azure, we would have had to spend an additional $30,000 per year on hardware," said PageUp People CIO, Simon Cariss.</p><p>"Since deploying CareerPath on Azure, we haven't had to invest time in managing the application infrastructure," he added. "The system almost runs itself, which has freed the infrastructure team to work on strategic projects. That additional, high-value, resource time is worth $100,000 per year to our company."</p><p><a href="http://www.cio.com.au/article/461341/pageup_people_app_goes_up_into_azure_cloud/">Keep reading...</a></p>