UKCloud Creates an Open Source Alternative for UK Public Sector with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
October 24 2016 - 7:53AM
Business Wire
Government Cloud Provider Liberates Customers
from Proprietary Cloud Platforms with Cost-Effective, Secure Cloud
Services Based on Open Innovation
Red Hat, Inc. (NYSE:RHT), the world’s 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
UKCloud’s customers to deliver digital services directly to
citizens by providing the required levels of scalability,
performance and assurance.
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 UKCloud’s 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 UKCloud’s
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.
government’s 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.
Supporting Quotes
Simon Hansford, CEO, UKCloud
“Our continued focus is to enable our public sector customers to
offer intuitive, reliable and trusted services to UK citizens. Our
adoption of Red Hat OpenStack Platform as a highly scalable and
open platform is a direct response to our customers’ need to
deliver digital cloud native applications which comply with the
U.K. government’s strategy of embracing open source and open
standards rather than proprietary platforms. We were confident that
Red Hat’s extensive open-source capability and expertise would
enable us to deliver a proven, highly secure and massively scalable
platform. Red Hat were able to provide us with experts and
resources to accelerate the launch of our new OpenStack-based Cloud
Native Infrastructure service, on which customers are already
deriving value. We are committed to bringing the latest innovations
to the U.K. public sector and Red Hat’s upstream-first development
model and commitment to the open source community is a key part of
that.”
Radhesh Balakrishnan, general manager, OpenStack, Red Hat
“It is a privilege to work with UKCloud who are at the forefront
of enabling customers to embrace a digital approach to serving UK
citizens. As the market leading public cloud provider to U.K.
public sector, UKCloud has used their scale and focus to continue
to innovate. Powered by Red Hat OpenStack Platform and Red Hat Ceph
Storage, UKCloud is now armed with an open cloud solution which
complies with U.K. government’s digital strategy of transforming
public sector services in the U.K.”
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