From GoCompare to weflip: GoCo Group brands given tech boost from London's Rackspace

London’s tech service group Rackspace has supported the migration of fintech business GoCo Group to Microsoft Azure.

Founded in 2006 as the UK’s first comparison website to focus on product features as well as price, GoCompare - one of GoCo Group’s brand - is evolving its customer offering as well as the energy auto-switching service weflip and Look After My Bills.

With a relationship spanning 12 years, GoCompare selected Rackspace for its migration to a new infrastructure platform.

The migration was managed by the Rackspace Professional Services team, supporting GoCompare from consulting around cloud architecture through to delivery.

Kieron Nolan, group director of technology at GoCo Group, said: “We trust Rackspace to guide us through the challenges ahead [and] be transparent.

“Using the team’s insights from other projects they managed for us, as well as current and upcoming IT trends that might affect us means we are fully equipped with the right expertise to succeed. It’s a true partnership in every sense of the term.

“Having that footprint in place means we can tap into services such as data science, analytics and predictive modelling as we need them.”

The disaster recovery workload migration to Microsoft Azure was completed and with zero data loss. GoCompare has reportedly seen an improvement in the site’s sustainability and availability, with response times improved.

Through testing, the ability to automatically scale as needed is also expected to allow the platform to manage 10 times its normal load.

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