The first in a series of blogs on the history, evolution and future direction of the Platform as a Service (PaaS) and the people who build and run it. This series will be for you if you have a deeper interest in this kind of technology.
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.
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…
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 …
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 …
In my previous post I introduced the work that we are doing in HMRC to produce a standardised way of provisioning cloud infrastructure. This is part of our overall goal to move as much of our IT infrastructure to the cloud as …
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