Nationwide Building Society moves website to Azure cloud

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“By implementing new technology, we are able to stay modern and react quickly to the ever-changing needs of our members and the industry.” Nationwide said it plans to move additional workloads to the Azure cloud following the successful relaunch of its website. Its own tech teams worked with consultancy Contino on the implementation, using the chaos engineering method, which tests distributed computing systems to ensure they can withstand unexpected disruptions, focusing on random and unpredictable behaviour. Deepak Vensi, director of strategy and transformation at Contino, said: “The financial services sector is under constant pressure to provide a differentiated digital customer experience while being subject to regulatory scrutiny to improve operational resilience. Partnering with Microsoft, we have been able to instill a modern approach at Nationwide based on chaos engineering, allowing their engineering teams to proactively fix any incidents ahead of time and provide Nationwide’s members with a reliable and industry-leading digital experience.” Last month, Microsoft launched a cloud service tailored for financial services companies. It is one of the software giant’s bundles that build industry-specific requirements on top of its suite of cloud-based productivity tools, including Microsoft 365, Teams, Azure, and its customer relationship management and enterprise resource planning offering, Dynamics 365.

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