Cloud Services
Business Reimagined: Connecting your customers, people and data for secure scalable growth
Cloud-based solutions are playing a vital role in removing legacy infrastructure and for many organisations, cloud drives better insights, supports data-informed decision-making, enables modern collaboration and improves customer services, making them more competitive in today’s market.
However, the UK's cloud computing landscape is dynamic and many companies remain hesitant to fully embrace public cloud solutions. A recent deep dive into the sector by TechRepublic highlights a shift towards more discerning use of cloud services, not just driven by rising costs and security concerns but also reflecting a broader global movement towards more strategic, value-driven, and environmentally conscious cloud usage.
Most organisations continue to wrestle with tech debt and the modernisation of their legacy infrastructure to enhance operational efficiency, to improve security and meet evolving customer demands. Agility and efficiency are essential in enabling business to rapidly scale, to cater for changes in demand or to pivot into new markets. Legacy systems often lack the flexibility and scalability needed to support today’s requirements and can be more vulnerable to cyber threats and operational disruptions.
Hybrid multi-cloud solutions offer businesses flexibility, improved performance, and cost-efficiency. Leveraging multiple cloud providers mitigates risks related to vendor lock-in and enhances resilience against outages and security breaches. SCC delivers platform choice, to run the right workload on the right platform. Our hybrid solutions let you leverage cloud benefits for specific workloads whilst keeping sensitive data or legacy systems on-premises, minimising disruption and ensuring business continuity.
Our comprehensive suite of cloud solutions is designed to ensure our Business Partners can build and deploy solutions which deliver the best fit, without compromise. As a specialist cloud-enablement partner, working with SCC brings independence, agility, and visibility.
It’s no secret that technology is advancing at an unprecedented rate, so much so that there is a shortage of skills across the industry. In the past, maintaining an in-house team was perhaps an option, today the range of expertise required is broader than ever and skills are expensive and hard to come by.
We understand the challenges of scaling your teams, to ensure that you can deliver against the business imperatives of securing your IP, empowering your people, and extracting value from your data, whilst all the time delivering exceptional experiences.
Let SCC be your trusted partner in delivering hybrid cloud journeys enabling your teams to focus on strategy, innovation, and creating exceptional customer experiences, while we handle the technology behind the scenes.
Cloud Platform (Public, Private and Hybrid)
Data
Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Colocation
Outcomes we enable:
As part of a major change programme, the Post Office Limited (POL) were moving from their incumbent suppliers on premise data centre in Belfast to the Amazon Web Services (AWS) Cloud. This was a vital transformation designed to re-host Horizon, their primary IT system for the POL branch network.
The POL needed a partner to provide IT Professional Services for application development and operational expertise. The partner not only needed to demonstrate Professional Services expertise through AWS accreditations but also provide the ability for POL to procure services in an agile and proactive manner.
SCC were selected as the chosen partner to work closely with the existing POL internal team, to take-on existing services and deliver against their transformational journey. As part of this, SCC deliver cloud services to the POL utilising multiple vendors to provide AWS security services.
By SCC providing a consortium approach to this service using AWS and our AWS Partner Community, SCC provide a flexible resource capability that can stand up multiple full stack agile delivery teams at any one time. We enabled a choice of resource for POL to deliver the transformation based on an assessed approach taking in consideration of risk, complexity, and scale alongside the blended approach to offshoring resources which has ensured the works programmes are delivered cost effectively. SCC act as a single point of contact to bring together the numerous vendors required to deliver this service, taking an agile approach to the mobilisation of any additional vendors required.
The service delivered to POL focussed upon:
On premise and AWS Application Support: A fully Managed Service supporting POL’s line of business applications and services.
Infrastructure support: 24x7x365 operations, supporting infrastructure, interfaces and processes within POL’s AWS environment, proactive reporting and recommendations and best practice changes.
On demand DevOps Services: On demand request for changes to existing Services, the provision of additional Services, including consultancy and Professional Services, full cycle 24x7 on demand DevOps Support Services to provision, run, and optimise the POL’s infrastructures in the AWS Cloud.
SCC provide the Managed Service support for the AWS application infrastructure and will extend this model as the adoption of applications grow within POL.
