Derby City Council
Derby City Council broke even within 24 months of moving its legacy systems to Crown Hosting
The problem
Derby City Council is committed to the government's Cloud First policy, but its analysis showed that while something like 80% of its applications could move to public cloud, the rest could not. It needed a hybrid approach, under time pressure and with a supply chain that was resistant to change.
The solution
In August 2016 the council chose Crown Hosting through the framework. The Service Request process let it plan the migration in detail and set up network links ahead of a delayed start date, so it could leave existing contracts in a managed way. During consolidation, the council was free to expand and contract its capacity as its needs changed.
What it delivered
To break even, including the cost of migration
Roughly the share of applications that could move to cloud. Crown Hosting took the legacy estate
To leave existing contracts, using a delayed start date to plan the exit
[Crown Hosting] gave us the confidence to focus exclusively on the organisational digital transformation agenda.
Mark Walker
Head of ICT, Infrastructure and Cyber Defence, Derby City Council
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