The article features Steve Philpott, chief information officer (CIO) of Amylin. Philpott has developed Virtual Data Center in four main areas adopting Amazon Elastic Computer Cloud (EC2) and other providers. The main areas include pure infrastructure for quick provisioning servers, software development tools, support for disaster recovery, and software-as-a-service (SaaS). Philpott relates that they are very pleased with the performance of EC2.