END USER INSIGHT
IT USED TO TAKE
US FOUR OR
FIVE MONTHS
TO PROCURE
AND PROVISION
A NEW
CONNECTION.
NOW WE CAN GET
IT DONE WITHIN
AN HOUR IF
NEEDED.
in place to handle whatever comes up.
It’s fully automated, so as we add new
areas in the cloud, they’re available
everywhere on our network, to all staff,
within seconds,” said Hinchey.
“It used to take us four or five months
to procure and provision a new
connection. Now we can get it done
within an hour if needed.”
Key take-aways
“Equinix Cloud Exchange Fabric has
delivered exactly what was sold to us,”
said Hinchey. “It’s been completely
robust, easy to manage and the Equinix
support is very good.”
For the future, DVSA hopes to cross
connect directly to other government
agencies using ECX Fabric to make data
sharing and connectivity easier.
It also plans to take more advantage
of the connectivity it already has, for
example, to apply further analytics and
Machine Learning to the data within its
MOT service.
Hinchey added: “ECX Fabric gives us the
flexibility to scale up and out as much as
we want and whenever we need.
“We can jump from cloud vendor to cloud
vendor whenever we please, from a
network connectivity perspective.” ◊
DVSA hopes to include cloud-based
applications, such as Office 365 and
ServiceNow, soon.
“DVSA’s digital, data and technology
vision is to ‘become a digitally enabled
organisation’ by providing modern,
efficient and sustainable technology to
support our mobile workforce and build
brilliant digital services for our users. So,
there’s a massive Digital Transformation
going on within the agency currently.
We’ve got over 500 applications we want
to move into public cloud,” said Hinchey.
“We’ve taken an interconnection-first
approach and that’s put the foundation
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