Delivering a smart cloud-based weather community – the Met Office

By using a cloud-based solution, PA helped the Met Office keep IT infrastructure investment to an absolute minimum. It also ensured a scalable solution that would automatically provision additional capacity during significant weather events and other high-demand periods, preventing the need for additional servers that would otherwise be underutilised much of the time. In just five weeks from launch, WOW built up two million weather readings across the UK, North America, Europe and the Middle East.

Read a blog post on project WOW by Edward Hartwell-Goose, PA cloud solutions expert, and the case study prepared by Google with the Met Office and PA about the work.

For further information on the cloud platform used in the project, visit Google’s Cloud Business site.

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