Cabinet Office Digital has completed the migration of the ResilienceDirect online event and emergency response service from a private to a public cloud.
It said the move, which it has carried out with the Resilience Directorate, was the first phase in the transformation of the service, which provides a secure web platform for exercises, planning, response and recovery. The public cloud host has not been named.
The migration involved moving three of the five applications – collaborate, maps and joint operational learning – away from a private cloud that was not ideal for a web platform.
It took place over three months early in the year and has reportedly reduced hosting and maintenance costs by 42%, provided service features – such as identity and authentication – that are easier to iterate and improve, reduced the number of management contracts needed and cut overheads for server and component maintenance.
Other benefits identified since the migration include enhanced security, baseline protection, the provision of user insights, improved transparency of application and infrastructure operations, and the reusability of components.
Scalability and flexibility
A blogpost by Cabinet Office Digital adds: “By migrating to the public cloud, the team has not only enhanced scalability and flexibility but also made the potential to iterate the technology available for the future.
“With platform resilience now in place, the next phase towards enhancing the user journey and service design has already started and will complete the transformation towards an improved event and emergency response service for all the resilience community.”
