How the DWP is ridding itself of 40 years of technical debt

Tom Allen
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The DWP's IT estate had become convoluted and complex after four decades of outsourcing, but virtualisation and the public cloud is cutting through the tangle

The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has massive technical debt. It offers over 100 products, holds data on every UK citizen and runs more than 850 branches - 700 of which are customer-facing...

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