"With the advent of the Cloud we could see a great opportunity for flexibility," he said.

"Today all our company data centres are largely virtualized on the VMWare platform and we have several Cloud vendors that we use as appropriate."

Consona runs most of its major production applications, such as financial and services software, within its virtual data centre, as well as several applications that support the interface.

"They are mostly predictable in size and usage and, in many cases, the software isn't suitable for the Cloud or not Cloud ready," Volosyn said.

"When we buy companies we inherit software and it can take some time to convert."