DCD EMEA Awards 2016 Finalist !

Less then 24 hours after I published my ‘thank you team’ post, Datacenter Dynamics announced their nominees for this year’s DCD EMEA 2016 Awards.

I’m very proud one of the mentioned projects in my original post got nominated in the Category Cloud Journey of the Year

The selected project is our move of SDL Machine Translation from our co-lo datacenter to a IAAS cloud solution;

Availability of content in multiple languages is key to driving useful international business. SDL’s Statistical machine translation delivers high quality translation services to more thousands of customers. While SDL’s research organisation already explored a new approach to machine translation, the future development and deployment needed more flexibility in technology choice and dynamic scalability to be commercially successful. Over 10 months, SDL migrated their current workload deployment consisting of hundreds of servers, without customer downtime, to a private Cloud deployment. The migration included a project team of more than 35 staff in 5 time zones. Besides flexibility and scalability gains, the migration saves SDL more than 450k GBP over 4 years.

The teams worked long hours, overcoming many obstacles a long the way. Congrats to all involved!