Royal London, the largest mutual life, pensions and investment company in the UK, has signed a five-year technology deal with Fujitsu.

The agreement will see Fujitsu host Royal London’s VME (Virtual Machine Environment) legacy operating system, and deliver the operations, support functions, processing, applications and development for one of Royal London’s long-term ‘closed’ book of insurance policies.

“Our main concern was ensuring that customers are not adversely affected, either during the transition of the hosting of the mainframe, or through the continued support. We want a very stable service that works like clockwork and Fujitsu delivers that,” explained Andy McGarrie, the chief technology officer at Royal London. “By handing over the support of this IT platform to Fujitsu, we can also ensure that we focus on driving technological innovation within the business – allowing us to truly adopt a ‘hybrid’ approach, maintaining legacy where needed and driving innovation where possible.”

Anne MacRae, head of financial services, Fujitsu UK & Ireland, added: “For many organisations there remains a practical requirement to ensure they maintain legacy mainframes – even as the wider business adopts new, innovative platform solutions. That’s why VME remains an integral part of the technological infrastructure that we call hybrid IT.”

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