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UKCloud, previously named Skyscape Cloud Services,^[1] is a British public cloud company, headquartered in Farnborough, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest UK cloud providers.^[2] The company was founded in 2011, rebranding as UKCloud in August 2016.^[3] UKCloud is a cloud provider for several customers including Genomics England, Ministry of Justice, and the Cabinet Office amongst others.

History and background

The company was established in 2011, by co-founders Jeff Thomas, Jeremy Sanders, Phil Dawson and Simon Hansford,^[4] as Skyscape Cloud Services, but changed the name to UKCloud Ltd five years later following a legal wrangle with Sky.^[5]

UKCloud services are provided in partnership^[6] with QinetiQ, VMware,^[7] Cisco, Dell EMC^[8] and Ark Data Centres.^[9]

UKCloud focuses on changing how the UK government purchases and uses IT services, detailed in the March 2011 UK Government ICT Strategy.^[10] The company has since sold to government through the G-Cloud frameworks Digital Marketplace^[11] and has been doing so since the first iteration of the framework in 2012. They offer a multi-cloud platform consisting of VMWare, Oracle, Openstack, and Microsoft Azure

UKCloud are subject to regular audits, assessments and inspections by certification bodies, regulators and accreditors. The firm has recently achieved ISO27017 & ISO27018, and is also certified to ISO9001, ISO20000 and ISO27001.^[12]^[13]

UKCloud are a carbon neutral company who offers its customers Carbon Neutral Hosting, achieved through an independent assessment of the CO2 emissions produced from direct and indirect sources required to deliver, followed by an offset-inclusive emissions reduction programme.^[14]^[15]

UKCloud are also a completely sovereign cloud provider meaning all applications and data are hosted in UK datacentres & the company is incorporated as a British company under UK legal jurisdiction.

Awards

In 2016, UKCloud won the Communications Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA Award.^[16]^[17] It has also won the Cloudex 20:20 Award and a UK IT Industry Award in 2013.^[18] and are winners of The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 2016.^[19]

UKCloud were winners for the Tech Track 100, ranking number 1 in the league table in 2016. ^[20]^[21]

In 2017 UKCloud were announced as recipients of the prestigious The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation. ^[22]

In 2018 UKCloud won the award for G-Cloud Public Sector Provider of the year for the second year consecutively, the company also featured as one of the Future Fifty’s fastest growing technology companies.^[23]^[24]

Partnerships

In addition to its founding Alliance Partners, UKCloud has since announced a Cloud Native Cloud platform,^[25] based upon RedHat's Openstack, and an Oracle cloud platform.

References

1. ^https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/skyscape_now_uk_cloud/. The Register. Retrieved 2016-08-15
2. ^http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/ukcloud-overview. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-13
3. ^http://ukcloud.com/news-resources/news/recent-press-releases/skyscape-cloud-services-relaunches-as-ukcloud. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-13
4. ^https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/growth-fund/bgf-helps-cloud-company-expand/. Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
5. ^http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/IPEC/2016/1340.html. BAILII. Retrieved 2016-08-15
6. ^http://ukcloud.com/who-are-our-partners. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-16
7. ^http://blogs.vmware.com/vcloud/2013/08/get-on-the-path-to-the-hybrid-cloud-see-how-vmware-vcloud-service-provider-partners-can-help.html. VMware Cloud Blog. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
8. ^http://www.vce.com/asset/documents/skyscape-casestudy.pdf. Skyscape Casestudy Online. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
9. ^http://www.arkdatacentres.co.uk. Ark Data Centres. Retrieved 2016-03-31./
10. ^https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ict-strategy-resources. Government ICT Strategyplace - March 2011" UK Government. Retrieved 2016-03-08
11. ^https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services/776431815513998. GOV.UK. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
12. ^http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/accreditations-certifications
13. ^http://www.lrqa.co.uk/help-and-support/case-studies/UK-Case-Studies/ukcloud-iso-27018.aspx
14. ^http://www.thecrowd.me/environmental-instruments-going-beyond-%E2%80%9Cbridging-gap%E2%80%9D
15. ^http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/sustainability-our-green-credentials
16. ^cyberparse. http://cyberparse.co.uk/2015/12/08/skyscape-cloud-services-wins-deloitte-technology-fast-500-emea-award/ Skyscape Cloud Services Wins Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA Award - Cyber Parse. Retrieved 2016-03-31
17. ^http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/technology-fast-500-emea.html. Deliotte. Retrieved 2016-08-16
18. ^http://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/2013/09/11/skyscape-named-one-to-watch-at-cloudex-2020/. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
19. ^http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/league-table/ and https://www.hiscox.co.uk/business-blog/ukcloud-from-last-years-one-to-watch-to-tech-track-100-no-1/
20. ^http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/
21. ^http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/company_profile/ukcloud/
22. ^https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise/about-the-awards
23. ^{{Cite web|url=https://technation.io/programmes/future-fifty/|title=Future Fifty - Growth Programmes|website=Tech Nation|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}
24. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/go/7491|title=UK Cloud Awards 2018 winners revealed|website=Cloud Pro|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}
25. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/about/press-releases/ukcloud-creates-open-source-alternative-uk-public-sector-red-hat-openstack-platform|title=UKCloud Creates an Open Source Alternative for UK Public Sector with Red Hat OpenStack Platform|website=www.redhat.com|access-date=2016-10-31}}