AMP completes large-scale tech refresh with DXC

AMP has completed a large-scale "technology refresh program" that saw it shift applications and workloads onto new infrastructure managed by DXC.

The work was completed under what was called the AMP DXC Datacentre Technology Refresh Program".

A detailed LinkedIn post from Craig Moseley, AMP’s program director for group technology a digital, data, infrastructure and integration, illustrated the work undertaken over the past year. 

According to Moseley, AMP awarded DXC Technology a five-year IT managed services contract extension in late December 2022, “allowing DXC infrastructure end-of-life risks to be mitigated by October 2023.”

“The program migrated AMP production applications and data onto new compute, IBMi, Oracle Exadata, storage, backup, network, cyber security and IT service management infrastructure managed by DXC Technology," he wrote.

The program was initiated for multiple risk reasons, including due to end-of-life hardware and software, an exit by DXC of its Pyrmont data centre in Sydney next month, to improve cyber security and lower operating costs.

Moseley wrote that about 200 AMP and DXC personnel worked on the program.

He said “technology transformations of this scale are always tricky”, leading the company to “become more resilient individually and as a team”.  

Moseley called out a series of highlights, including the completion of strategic sourcing in a 10-week period leading up to Christmas 2022; and the “seamless migration of three business production applications and 29 non-production application environments."

“I am proud to say that this complex technology program was seamlessly delivered on schedule (to the day), under budget, with higher total benefits than planned,” Moseley wrote.

An AMP spokesperson declined to provide additional details of the program when approached by iTnews, saying only that the program is part of its “ongoing focus to simplify and enhance our technology platforms to drive business performance and, most importantly, deliver better, secure experiences for our customers.”