Cloud is not a location says Andrew Puddephatt, Head of Public Sector at Nutanix: “Cloud is an operating model for delivering services and applications, so whether that is on premises or with a public cloud provider should not matter. That’s why hybrid cloud is the model the UK public sector is looking at right now.”

BSUH NHS puts data at the heart of its transformation: Providing a cloud experience whilst optimising and maximising the value of this data is essential as the trust modernises operations, says head of infrastructure, Dan Holmes - giving clinicians access to the right data about their patients, at the right time and in the right place.

Hybrid is the pragmatic approach to cloud: Director at Socitm Advisory, Mark Adams-Wright, says that the majority of local authorities are on now on the journey to cloud. However, handling sensitive data and a legacy estate will inevitably, he believes, require a pragmatic, hybrid approach to modernisation – the keys to success will be a focus on desired outcomes and maintaining pace.

DWP’s journey to take back control of its infrastructure: The Department for Work and Pensions operates a vast estate of legacy systems, says Andy Jones, Lead Infrastructure Engineer, BPDTS (DWP). Taking back control of some of these outsourced services is seen as key and the focus today is on moving towards a hyperconverged, private cloud, infrastructure fit for the future.

Harnessing private cloud to power three councils: Orbis Partnership’s Head of Enterprise Technology & Innovation, Andy Grogan, used a hybrid approach to consolidating, optimising and moving the collective infrastructure towards cloud technologies when he inherited multiple datacentres from the councils the partnership serves: Surrey, East Sussex and Brighton & Hove.