UKCloud Creates an Open Source Alternative for UK Public Sector with Red Hat OpenStack Platform
Government Cloud Provider Liberates Customers from Proprietary Cloud
Platforms with Cost-Effective, Secure Cloud Services Based on Open
Innovation
BARCELONA, Spain--(BUSINESS WIRE)--
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 areeasy 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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