How Carrenza Cloud Is Helping Comic Relief Raise Cash For Charity

Cloud services firm Carrenza is the official cloud provider and hosting partner to Red Nose Day 2015 AKA Red Nose Day, with the fundraising organisation’s mission critical technology systems hosted on Carrenza’s Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) environment.

The scope of work covers important elements of Comic Relief’s cloud based technology, including some of those handling donations, fundraising sign-ups, data capture and key systems provided by the likes of HP, PayPal and Royal Mail. The next Red Nose Day takes place today, March 13, 2015.

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Carrenza has donated its IaaS to help power some of Comic Relief’s donation platforms on the night of Red Nose Day and Sport Relief for the last seven years and has supported Comic Relief’s technology teams to ensure that those services remain available and responsive 24 hours a day.

Comic Relief’s own donations platform runs on one of the largest production CloudFoundry deployments anywhere, with one of the distributed instances of the platform being hosted on Carrenza’s Cloud. Scalability and reliability are crucial to meeting the unprecedentedly high levels of demand expected on the night which in previous years has peaked at over 250 donations being processed per second.

Zenon Hannick, Comic Relief CTO, said: “Carrenza provide us a range of infrastructure and platform services to support a diverse and changing estate of applications, helping us to maximise the income we generate during each campaign. We are delighted that we are continuing to work with Carrenza for Red Nose Day and we thank them for their continued support and generosity in helping us ensure that each campaign is a success.

“Carrenza’s enthusiastic approach to planning, implementation and on-going management has already demonstrated their expertise to us. Their system integrity and ability to manage capacity are invaluable and bring both time efficiency and professionalism to the project. I have no doubt that this year will be no different.”

Dan Sutherland, CEO at Carrenza, said: “Our support of Comic Relief goes beyond a purely commercial relationship, as a team and as a company we believe in what they do, and we are hugely proud of the small part we play in helping them achieve their goals.”

With this campaign Carrenza will have donated more than £3m pounds worth of infrastructure services and consultancy to Comic Relief since 2008.

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