Case Study: The British Army achieves increased resiliency and faster application deployment with VMware

Vmware keeps the army on the front foot by boosting deployment

The British Army needed to replace a legacy hosting system to support day-to-day operations for more than 50,000 personnel and to ensure continuous availability, faster application development and a shift to DevOps practices. The organisation required a resilient, secure infrastructure that would give central control over applications, connect to a Farnborough failover site for disaster recovery, and reduce downtime for critical systems such as HR, training, resource planning and combat readiness.

Working with VMware, the Army built a software‑defined private cloud using vSphere, vRealize, NSX and Horizon (with vSAN planned), creating reusable templates, automated provisioning and micro‑segmented security. The new environment cut development and deployment time dramatically, improved resiliency and operational efficiency, enabled remote secure access and gave leaders better oversight while delivering cost‑effective, scalable infrastructure for future growth.

British Army

Dorian Seabrook

Head of Operations, IAS Branch