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Rolf Krolke: Surviving Scale at Access Group

Episode Summary

Rolf Krolke explains how Access Group has consolidated a sprawling, acquisition-led IT estate while delivering near-zero downtime for mission-critical workloads like NHS payroll.

Episode Notes

Access Group runs a vast, acquisition-led IT estate while supporting mission-critical services such as NHS payroll. Tom speaks with regional technology director Rolf Krolke about how the organisation designed a scalable reference architecture that delivers resilience, flexibility and near-zero downtime across private and public cloud environments.

Rolf unpacks the practical realities of active-active design, modular infrastructure and operating at global scale, alongside the mistakes IT leaders make when modernising complex estates. Listen now to learn more about designing for failure, managing technical debt and keeping transformation aligned with real business risk.