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In the last four months the British Tax Authority HMRC have introduced an Openstack cloud as the second hosting provider to our Digital Tax Platform. This opensource PaaS project, winner of the UK IT Awards Digital Project of the year in 2015, has revolutionised the government’s ability to interact with British taxpayers and facilitated a rate of change unprecedented in the government. The rapid introduction of DataCentered’s Openstack Cloud has allowed the Tax Platform to create a multi-active platform which spans both VMware and Openstack clouds and multiple suppliers.  On Openstack, between November 2015 and January 2016 we were able to spin up a second active side to the platform providing us geographic, supplier and technological resilience ahead of our Tax Return peak where we took over £343M in 24 hours.