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United States : UKCloud Creates an Open Source Alternative for UK Public Sector with Red Hat OpenStack Platform

Publish Date : 27-Oct-2016

Red Hat, Inc. the worlds leading provider of open source solutions, today announced that UKCloud, the foremost public cloud provider for UK government, has standardized on Red Hat OpenStack Platform with Red Hat Ceph Storage to lead its public sector customers through their digital transformation journey. The Infrastructure-as-a-Service cloud platform is designed to enable UKClouds customers to deliver digital services directly to citizens by providing the required levels of scalability, performance and assurance.

Our move to Red Hat OpenStack Platform as a highly scalable and open platform is a direct response to our customers need to deliver on their digital transformation strategies. We were confident that Red Hats upstream-first development model would deliver a fit-for-purpose, more secure platform, and working in tight collaboration we have been able to offer our new OpenStack-based solution to customers in a short time frame.

UKCloud provides a public cloud for U.K. public sector organizations across industries such as healthcare, defense and police and justice, including the Cabinet Office, Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency (DVLA), Home Office, HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) and Ministry of Defence (MOD). Its services are used extensively to host both citizen web applications and sensitive government systems available through public sector networks. With an increasing need to support genuine cloud-native applications for customers at the forefront of digital services innovation, UKCloud needed to complement its proven enterprise platform with open technologies powered by Red Hat.

With its core principle of offering services that are easy to adopt, easy to use, and easy to transition, UKCloud actively promotes open source as an alternative to proprietary global cloud platforms. In addition, its customers increasingly require native compatibility with Infrastructure-as-Code tools that is key to enabling the fast pace of innovation across the public sector. This led UKCloud to select OpenStack as the basis for its disruptive Cloud Native Infrastructure service.

Central to UKClouds choice of Red Hat as an OpenStack technology partner was its proven experience in developing secure, production-ready platforms for enterprises around the world, backed by trusted technical expertise and support. UKCloud approached Red Hat to deliver a pilot environment for a select group of its pioneering customers. Very quickly, Red Hat OpenStack Platform met the performance, scalability and security standards UKClouds customers need, and UKCloud were able to rapidly move to a production service. Integral to this, UKCloud invested in Red Hat Ceph Storage to enable flexible and cost-effective cloud data storage underpinned by the assurance of reliability at scale.

Working closely, Red Hat and UKCloud were able to build the production environment within a tight timescale of just six months. This enabled them to meet the deadlines of G-Cloud, the U.K. governments initiative to ease the procurement process for public sector bodies using technology services based on cloud computing. UKCloud continues to contribute innovation back into the open source community and encourages the inter-departmental sharing of best practice within its public sector and partner communities.

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