Cloud

We design and deliver high-security cloud architectures for organisations operating at significant scale. Our work spans cloud adoption, complex transformation and the engineering needed to run modern, resilient systems in sensitive environments.

We build advanced serverless and cloud native platforms capable of handling very large data volumes, real time analytics and extreme concurrency. We also host the community site cloud-architecture.io where we publish free guidance on cloud architecture, principles and transformation.

We deliver large scale data processing, translation, transcription, text analytics and geo analysis platforms, including advanced machine learning capabilities for intelligence, security and law enforcement clients.

Our view is that Cloud Computing is:

the on demand delivery of compute power, storage, databases, applications, artificial intelligence, machine learning and other IT resources
over the internet with pay as you go pricing.

The term “Cloud” covers the technology, platforms, ecosystem and architectural approaches that make effective use of cloud capabilities.

Cloud services should be “OSSM”:

• On demand: services are available within seconds or minutes, not days or weeks
• Self service: users can create, manage and remove resources directly, often via an API
• Scalable: capacity increases or decreases automatically to match demand
• Measurable: usage is monitored and auditable, supporting cost and operational insight

Cloud is often described in terms of IaaS, PaaS and Serverless.