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Data virtualisation: why we moved 99 million accounts
It took 2 years of planning and culminated in moving more than 99 million accounts over a single weekend. Programme Manager, Ian Roberts, explains how we're virtualising big legacy systems.
cloud computing
A new era: bold plans and innovation
HMRC has successfully completed the phased exit of the Aspire IT contract – on time and as planned. Director of IT Development, Testing and Operations at HMRC, Pete Schofield, talks about how HMRC’s new IT and commercial model is already enabling innovation on a massive scale…
The hub of all knowledge
Can you imagine storing and managing over 10 million filing cabinets worth of customer data? Then working out how to keep that data relevant, correct and useable? It’s a bit of a conundrum but since 2014 we’ve been working on …
Talking openly at Open Source 16
Last Wednesday I spoke at the Open source 16 conference. With some other great talks from Government Digital Service, Greater London Authority and NHS England, it seems HMRC is not the only government organisation experiencing some incredible benefits through the use …
HMRC's Network Strategy: supporting our IT Strategy
I’m Jim Boyle, HMRC’s Head of Network Architecture. Following Kristian’s blog post on HMRC’s IT Strategy I want to tell you about how we make sure our Network Strategy supports our IT vision. It’s a bit of a technical subject …
Increasing the resilience of the Tax Platform
In the latest of our series of blog posts about the infrastructure that supports our digital services, Tim Britten talks about moving to an Active-Active model.
Peaks and clouds: improving how we work
I’m Tim Britten, Digital Service Manager for Infrastructure and Operations. I’m working on HMRC’s Tax Platform – and specifically infrastructure that supports our digital services. In his latest post, Kalbir Sohi talked about how we have been exploring cloud computing …
Laying the foundations for HMRC’s digital services
I am Kalbir Sohi and I'm an Infrastructure Digital Service Manager at HMRC. I lead a Web Operations team whose job is to make sure that we meet the infrastructure needs of teams delivering digital services in HMRC. I've written …