Customer Story - Chris Scoggins, CEO, National Rail Enquiries

1. Darwin migration
Chris Scoggins
CEO

2. NRE – a transformation
• Created in 1996, a private company owned by the train
operators
• B2C: # 1 busiest app / mobile / desktop web site in travel
• 45% per annum growth
• 6m apps downloaded across iPad, iPhone, Android, TV app,
Win8
• B2B: 1000 services provided to 200 clients

3. Darwin

4. Darwin – what is it?
• A heuristic system that takes various industry feeds and
predicts & reports real time train running
• Provides the real time information for our world first real time
journey planner
• Demand for real time during disruption over 10x normal
demand
• Ageing infrastructure

5. Why choose commodity cloud ?
• “It’s not resilient !”
• “It’s not secure”
• “You can’t get good SLAs”

6. Darwin – planning the migration
• Lots of key players
• Virtualising the system
• Built POC to test all components
• SOASTA ran realistic load tests

7. Darwin – the migration challenges
• Different licence conditions
• Migrating without any downtime
• Changing the culture to a “pay-as-you use” model
• Changing the roles & responsibilities of our suppliers

8. Darwin – the result
• Migration successfully completed on March 1st
• Improved SLA
• 20% saving on previous arrangement
• Ability to flex capacity when required

9. Thank You!

10. AWS
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