Auckland Council’s hybrid cloud strategy for improved efficiency

Public cloud delivers ever more of the world’s digital horsepower, but it doesn’t provide all the answers. In fact, private clouds and in-country infrastructure platforms feature prominently in what is known as hybrid cloud, as large organisations arrange technology workloads in places that deliver best return on investment.

Thirteen years ago, CCL (then Revera) was contracted to provide application and infrastructure support services to North Shore City Council, sparking a relationship that placed CCL at the heart or thereabouts of Council’s critical infrastructure.

Three years on, CCL’s engagement expanded to All of Government IaaS – a move that would extract IT systems from 16 legacy data centres running Auckland’s newly-amalgamated councils and consolidate 2,300 servers to around 1,500 VMs situated on CCL’s IaaS platform.

The move to a virtual infrastructure established a clearer picture of Council’s assets and costs, further helping to fine-tune applications and data newly unhitched from legacy infrastructure, enabling Council to shift workloads and scale confidently.