The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has migrated 47 applications from a legacy private cloud environment to MODCloud. The apps include the armed forces websites and others, used by hundreds of thousands of users.
The migration forms part of a wider large-scale datacentre rationalisation initiative started in 2019. The MoD says it is keen to get as many of its applications out of legacy datacentres and into a public cloud infrastructure and “a more sustainable and cost-effective hosting environment.”
The MoD engaged IT services company Netcompany for the discovery, design, build and assisted with the migration of the applications. Netcompany gained notice during the pandemic for the deployment of the Covid-19 passport apps in England, Scotland, and Denmark.
The aim of the MOD migration was to deliver greater flexibility to manage and engineer applications, enabling app owners to scale use, giving greater resilience and cybersecurity and deliver cost savings to the taxpayer.
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The move to the cloud would also provide the MoD with the scope to refactor applications, making them more cloud-native, which will deliver additional cost savings for taxpayers in the future, it says. But, more than that, it will enable the MoD to rapidly deploy new services and innovate faster.
“It has added a layer of operational and strategic agility which will not only benefit the MoD on a day-to-day basis but will allow it to scale more easily in times of domestic or international crisis. Now the MoD is confident in its futureproofed capabilities and is better able to meet the demands of citizens as well as its armed forces and their families,” Netcompany said in a statement.
“We understand the challenges that the MoD encounters daily, and as a result were able to assist in rapidly and successfully deploying their applications,” said Richard Davies, UK country manager partner of Netcompany. “Today it is vitally important that our armed forces are as efficient, productive, and innovative as possible and moving to a public cloud infrastructure will deliver the flexibility and agility they need, both now and in the future.”
With 6,500 employees worldwide and more than 500 in the UK, the business is growing with clients like NHS and the MoD in the public sector, and blue-chip private sector clients in the energy, defence, transportation, and logistics sectors.
