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“ KAINOS IS VERY ALIGNED TO OUR BUSINESS OUTCOMES FOR CUSTOMERS , SO WE KNOW WE ’ VE GOT A DEEPLY TRUSTED PARTNER . THEY CAN DELIVER HUGELY COMPLEX CLOUD PROJECTS WITH A PROVEN TRACK RECORD ”

DERRICK MCCOURT GM , CUSTOMER SUCCESS UNIT , MICROSOFT people attended three-day workshops to help inform their career choices .
On specifically climate action , when the UN Agency , the International Organisation for Migration ( IOM ) came to Kainos , they were experiencing issues with infrastructure : essential services couldn ' t be delivered ; they were starting to experience resiliency issues ; and , as an organisation that operates in over 150 countries , they were worried about security .
“ Working with Microsoft , we helped the IOM to migrate to the cloud . It ’ s a success story of the services that we provide to the end users and a positive one around the sustainability aspect .”
Kainos developed its own IP for the purpose of a carbon calculator , combined with Microsoft ’ s expertise from their own Azure carbon reporting tool .
“ We created an algorithm around measuring the level of carbon reduction . If you have an in-house VM ( virtual machine ) data centre , we look at how the reduction level differs when all that is moved onto the public cloud ,” he says .
Sloan highlights that this changes the conversation at a CEO-level around the cloud , shifting from one of cost to the availability of service , resilience and security , instead . aimagazine . com 61