Scottish cloud and data centre provider Brightsolid closed a new deal - worth £1m a year – with Aberdeen City Council to provide a managed data centre service.

The council migrated its entire ICT estate to the private cloud in the first six weeks of the new contract framework. Willie Young, the Aberdeen City Council finance, policy and resources convenor, admitted the Council was impressed with the quality, flexibility and personalisation of the service.

“We have found a partner with whom we can innovatively work as we digitally transform our council services while also reducing our operational costs”, he commented.

Brightsolid CEO, Richard Higgs, said their intention was to “help the city become a centre of technical excellence”.

The provision of disaster recovery services is also included within the new framework. The deal will last until May of 2017.

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