Case study:  'Trailblazing' speedier public sector cloud migration

Legacy lift-and-shift at Forestry and Land Scotland

John Leonard
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Case study:  'Trailblazing' public sector cloud migration
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Case study: 'Trailblazing' public sector cloud migration

The goal was to move everything to public cloud, but when Nick Mahlitz, senior digital infrastructure manager at Forestry and Land Scotland did the numbers it turned out it would take five years at least. Unfortunately, he only had two.

Forestry and Land Scotland (FLS) was founded in 2019 when responsibility for Scottish forests was fully devolved to the Scottish government. It manages more than 1.5 million acres of national fores...

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