 Welcome to the OpenStack Summit, Boston. Can you please tell us your name and what you do? Hi, I'm Bill Mu. I'm a cloud strategist at UK Cloud. Great. Congratulations on winning the Super User Awards along with Patty Power Bedfair. What do you think made UK Cloud stand out amongst the finalists? Well, we're delighted to have won the award. It's an award that we share not only with our hard-working team but also with our partners and clients because they lead a lot of the innovation we do and it's that innovation we think that really helped us stand out. We serve a particular market in the UK, which is the UK government sector. We only serve the the public sector clients from central government to local government to health and elsewhere and this is a particular niche that we're focused on and we believe that by being specialist in that market and by taking on and beating the generalists, the global hyperscalers in the market, we can provide added value to all of those clients and OpenStack is a part of the armory that we use to do that and we're keen to continue innovating and to continue contributing to the OpenStack community. Yeah, same on that topic. I attended a session for the UK civil service and heard they were working with UK Cloud. Can you explain that partnership? Yeah, no, we've got a host of different clients in the UK public sector. We have over 200 clients in that market and we're actually the largest provider of cloud services to the UK public sector. One of the teams that we were over here with at the OpenStack Summit were from the Department of International Trade and they were presenting on some of the innovative use that they've made of OpenStack on our particular platform. They're looking to try and integrate different systems between different parts of government in order to provide efficiencies as we've sought to do across government in the UK In particular the example that I think they presented on stage was that if you want to let's say import an antique firearm from Germany say in the past you might have needed to fill in a form to sort of get clearance for the import license, another form for a firearms license and yet another form for an antiques license. It's a question of having joined up government and providing the systems and the microservices that link up all these departments so that when you go online you can have a single license application that recognizes your requirements that feeds the information directly into the different registers of the different departments that you need to be getting a license from and automates this and makes the whole experience easier and more integrated for the users and indeed it's not only providing a better service to those who are applying for the license it's providing better value for the UK taxpayer because it's a lot more efficient What other kind of customers is UK cloud work with? Well, it's a wide range of customers and we've always had a strong presence in central government We also work in local government defense police and justice Education and elsewhere and indeed this week my colleagues back in the UK are launching a new division to particularly target the health care environment we've seen about a 10% a penetration of cloud with government sector workloads for central government It's still a far lower percentage in areas like local government and health And we want to adjust as we've done by providing specialist services with a group of really great Specialist partners to the central government. We want to try and take the same successful formula and take it to the health sector so we've got a whole set of partners that we're working with to launch a new division into the health sector and we're really Gung-ho and looking forward to working with many clients in that sector We already have about 30 existing clients and we see a really big opportunity there Not only for ourselves and for our partners But also for our clients in that in that arena saving the money providing efficiencies and really bringing innovation to the market What can we expect to see from UK cloud in the next six to 12 months? Well, we have a set of different platforms We have a VMware platform we're introducing an Oracle cloud as well And of course we have our open-stack platform where a lot of the innovations. I've talked to you about it happening We want to take that choice of platform to back into those markets And we obviously we've just launched a health division But we see there's a there are areas of government that have yet to really take a cloud adoption to its nth degree We we're very advanced in the UK the UK has been recognized by the United Nations as the number one digital government in the world So we're getting some things right and the award we've won here says something about that as well But obviously with penetration in central government about 10% and other areas as low as one or 2% There's a still a long way to go. There's more of innovation There's more efficiencies that we can bring to the market and as savings that we can make for our clients So there's this a hell of a lot of work still to do great amount of potential out there And I think we can really bring value to all of our clubs Well, thank you for taking the time to chat with us. Enjoy the rest of the summit. We've really enjoyed it here Thank you very much indeed