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The company was established in 2011, by co-founders Jeff Thomas, Jeremy Sanders, Phil Dawson and Simon Hansford,<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/growth-fund/bgf-helps-cloud-company-expand/. ''Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-08-16.''</ref> as Skyscape Cloud Services, but changed the name to UKCloud Ltd five years later following a legal wrangle with [[Sky.com|Sky]].<ref>http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/IPEC/2016/1340.html. ''BAILII. Retrieved 2016-08-15''</ref>
The company was established in 2011, by co-founders Jeff Thomas, Jeremy Sanders, Phil Dawson and Simon Hansford,<ref>https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/growth-fund/bgf-helps-cloud-company-expand/. ''Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-08-16.''</ref> as Skyscape Cloud Services, but changed the name to UKCloud Ltd five years later following a legal wrangle with [[Sky.com|Sky]].<ref>http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/IPEC/2016/1340.html. ''BAILII. Retrieved 2016-08-15''</ref>


In 2017, [https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/leadership/cloud-essentials/6793/ukcloud-enters-healthcare-industry UKCloud Health was launched]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/go/6793|title=UKCloud enters healthcare industry|website=Cloud Pro|language=en|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> to specialise in supporting HealthTech across the UK health and care sector. The UKCloud Health platform is used by HealthTech solution providers such as Babylon Health, IMMJ Systems<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.immjsystems.com/archive/immj-systems-and-ukcloud-health-in-partnership-with-imperial-college-healthcare-nhs-trust-has-been-shortlisted-as-a-finalist-for-the-hsj-partnership-awards-2020/|title=IMMJ Systems and UKCloud Health in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020 – IMMJ Systems|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> and Capgemini.
In 2017, [https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/leadership/cloud-essentials/6793/ukcloud-enters-healthcare-industry UKCloud Health was launched]<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.cloudpro.co.uk/go/6793|title=UKCloud enters healthcare industry|website=Cloud Pro|language=en|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> to specialise in supporting HealthTech across the UK health and care sector. The UKCloud Health platform is used by HealthTech providers such as Babylon Health, IMMJ Systems<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.immjsystems.com/archive/immj-systems-and-ukcloud-health-in-partnership-with-imperial-college-healthcare-nhs-trust-has-been-shortlisted-as-a-finalist-for-the-hsj-partnership-awards-2020/|title=IMMJ Systems and UKCloud Health in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020 – IMMJ Systems|language=en-GB|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref> and Capgemini.


UKCloudX was announced in 2018 to focus on the provision of secure cloud services to the UK Defence and National Security sector. UKCloudX claimed to offer the first public cloud for high classification systems in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://diginomica.com/ukcloud-goes-after-defence-community-and-secret-data-with-launch-of-ukcloudx|title=UKCloud goes after defence community and secret data with launch of UKCloudX|date=2018-06-21|website=diginomica|language=en|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref>
UKCloudX was announced in 2018 to focus on the provision of secure cloud services to the UK Defence and National Security sector. UKCloudX claimed to offer the first public cloud for high classification systems in the UK.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://diginomica.com/ukcloud-goes-after-defence-community-and-secret-data-with-launch-of-ukcloudx|title=UKCloud goes after defence community and secret data with launch of UKCloudX|date=2018-06-21|website=diginomica|language=en|access-date=2020-02-06}}</ref>
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UKCloud were winners for the Tech Track 100, ranking number 1 in the league table in 2016.<ref>http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/</ref><ref>http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/company_profile/ukcloud/</ref>
UKCloud were winners for the Tech Track 100, ranking number 1 in the league table in 2016.<ref>http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/</ref><ref>http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/company_profile/ukcloud/</ref>


In 2017, UKCloud were announced as recipients of the prestigious The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise/about-the-awards|title = The Queen's Awards for Enterprise}}</ref>
In 2017, UKCloud were announced as recipients of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.gov.uk/queens-awards-for-enterprise/about-the-awards|title = The Queen's Awards for Enterprise}}</ref>


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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://technation.io/programmes/future-fifty/|title=Future Fifty - Growth Programmes|website=Tech Nation|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://technation.io/programmes/future-fifty/|title=Future Fifty - Growth Programmes|website=Tech Nation|language=en|access-date=2019-01-06}}</ref><ref>{{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}}</ref>
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UKCloud has since moved to a multicloud platform, offering cloud environments from a choice of technology partners including Microsoft (Azure<ref name=":0" />), Red Hat ([[OpenStack|Openstack]] & OpenShift),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/ukcloud-case-study|title=UKCloud supports public sector cloud innovation with Red Hat|website=www.redhat.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref> [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and VMware.
UKCloud has since moved to a multicloud platform, offering cloud environments from a choice of technology partners including Microsoft (Azure<ref name=":0" />), Red Hat ([[OpenStack|Openstack]] & OpenShift),<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.redhat.com/en/resources/ukcloud-case-study|title=UKCloud supports public sector cloud innovation with Red Hat|website=www.redhat.com|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref> [[Oracle Corporation|Oracle]] and VMware.


UKCloud partners with Ark Data Centres to host its public cloud platforms within the UK government's [https://crownhostingdc.co.uk/campus/ Crown Campus] which is also used by Crown Hosting Data Centres.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crownhostingdc.co.uk/blog/crown-hosting-a-surprising-government-shared-service-story/|title=Crown Hosting – A Surprising Government Shared Service Story|website=Crown Hosting Data Centres|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>
UKCloud partners with Ark Data Centres to host its public cloud platforms within the UK government's Crown Campus which is also used by Crown Hosting Data Centres.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://crownhostingdc.co.uk/blog/crown-hosting-a-surprising-government-shared-service-story/|title=Crown Hosting – A Surprising Government Shared Service Story|website=Crown Hosting Data Centres|language=en|access-date=2020-02-03}}</ref>

UKCloud now delivers [[multicloud]] services across hyperscale clouds, 3rd party data centres and on-premises environments.


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UKCloud
Company typePrivate
IndustryCloud Computing
Founded2011; 13 years ago (2011)
FoundersJeff Thomas
Jeremy Sanders
Phil Dawson
Simon Hansford
Headquarters
Farnborough
Area served
United Kingdom
BrandsUKCloud

UKCloud Health

UKCloudX
Number of employees
250+
Websiteukcloud.com Edit this on Wikidata

UKCloud, also trading as UKCloud Health and UKCloudX, is a British cloud provider, headquartered in Farnborough, United Kingdom. It provides specialist multicloud services to organisations in the UK public sector and regulated industries.[1] The company was founded in 2011 as Skyscape Cloud Services,[2] rebranding as UKCloud in August 2016.[3] UKCloud, together with its UKCloud Health and UKCloudX divisions, supports hundreds of digital workloads for organisations such as Genomics England,[4] Ministry of Justice, Capgemini[5] and London Business School[6] amongst others.

History and background

The company was established in 2011, by co-founders Jeff Thomas, Jeremy Sanders, Phil Dawson and Simon Hansford,[7] as Skyscape Cloud Services, but changed the name to UKCloud Ltd five years later following a legal wrangle with Sky.[8]

In 2017, UKCloud Health was launched[9] to specialise in supporting HealthTech across the UK health and care sector. The UKCloud Health platform is used by HealthTech providers such as Babylon Health, IMMJ Systems[10] and Capgemini.

UKCloudX was announced in 2018 to focus on the provision of secure cloud services to the UK Defence and National Security sector. UKCloudX claimed to offer the first public cloud for high classification systems in the UK.[11]

In 2019, Cisco-backed Digital Alpha Advisors announced[12] an investment in UKCloud to accelerate the growth of the company.

UKCloud focuses on changing how the UK government purchases and uses IT services, detailed in the March 2011 UK Government ICT Strategy.[13] The company has since sold to government through the G-Cloud frameworks Digital Marketplace[14] and has been doing so since the first iteration of the framework in 2012. They offer a multicloud 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.[15][16]

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.[17][18]

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.[19][20] It has also won the Cloudex 20:20 Award and a UK IT Industry Award in 2013.[21] and are winners of The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 2016.[22]

UKCloud were winners for the Tech Track 100, ranking number 1 in the league table in 2016.[23][24]

In 2017, UKCloud were announced as recipients of the Queen’s Awards for Enterprise in Innovation.[25]

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.[26][27]

In 2019, UKCloud announced it had been recognised by the Best Companies scheme[28] with a one-star accreditation. UKCloud also won the Service Excellence award at Inspire'19.[29]

Partnerships

The original public cloud platform was delivered in partnership[30] with QinetiQ, VMware,[31] Cisco, Dell EMC[32] and Ark Data Centres.[33]

UKCloud has since moved to a multicloud platform, offering cloud environments from a choice of technology partners including Microsoft (Azure[6]), Red Hat (Openstack & OpenShift),[34] Oracle and VMware.

UKCloud partners with Ark Data Centres to host its public cloud platforms within the UK government's Crown Campus which is also used by Crown Hosting Data Centres.[35]

References

  1. ^ http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/ukcloud-overview. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-13
  2. ^ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/07/28/skyscape_now_uk_cloud/. The Register. Retrieved 2016-08-15
  3. ^ http://ukcloud.com/news-resources/news/recent-press-releases/skyscape-cloud-services-relaunches-as-ukcloud. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-13
  4. ^ "UKCloud | Genomics England Selects Skyscape To Support 100,000 Genomes Project". RealWire. 2015-12-03. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  5. ^ Matt Howell, Capgemini | UKCloud Health, retrieved 2020-02-03
  6. ^ a b "UK Cloud increases Azure support". Technology Business Today. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  7. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/growth-fund/bgf-helps-cloud-company-expand/. Telegraph. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  8. ^ http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWHC/IPEC/2016/1340.html. BAILII. Retrieved 2016-08-15
  9. ^ "UKCloud enters healthcare industry". Cloud Pro. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  10. ^ "IMMJ Systems and UKCloud Health in partnership with Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust has been shortlisted as a finalist for the HSJ Partnership Awards 2020 – IMMJ Systems". Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  11. ^ "UKCloud goes after defence community and secret data with launch of UKCloudX". diginomica. 2018-06-21. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  12. ^ "UKCloud secures £25m from Cisco investment partner". NS Tech. 2019-03-18. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  13. ^ https://www.gov.uk/government/collections/ict-strategy-resources. Government ICT Strategyplace - March 2011" UK Government. Retrieved 2016-03-08
  14. ^ https://www.digitalmarketplace.service.gov.uk/g-cloud/services/776431815513998. GOV.UK. Retrieved 2016-08-16.
  15. ^ http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/accreditations-certifications
  16. ^ "Leading information security | UKCloud | Lloyd's Register".
  17. ^ http://www.thecrowd.me/environmental-instruments-going-beyond-%E2%80%9Cbridging-gap%E2%80%9D
  18. ^ http://ukcloud.com/why-ukcloud/sustainability-our-green-credentials
  19. ^ 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
  20. ^ http://www2.deloitte.com/global/en/pages/technology-media-and-telecommunications/articles/technology-fast-500-emea.html. Deliotte. Retrieved 2016-08-16
  21. ^ http://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/2013/09/11/skyscape-named-one-to-watch-at-cloudex-2020/. Retrieved 2016-03-31.
  22. ^ 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/
  23. ^ http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/league-tables/tech-track-100/
  24. ^ http://www.fasttrack.co.uk/company_profile/ukcloud/
  25. ^ "The Queen's Awards for Enterprise".
  26. ^ "Future Fifty - Growth Programmes". Tech Nation. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  27. ^ "UK Cloud Awards 2018 winners revealed". Cloud Pro. Retrieved 2019-01-06.
  28. ^ "UKCloud Ltd Company Profile". Best Companies. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  29. ^ "UKCloud winner of the Service Excellence Award at the INSPIRE Business Awards 2019". INSPIRE19. Retrieved 2020-02-06.
  30. ^ http://ukcloud.com/who-are-our-partners. UKCloud.com. Retrieved 2016-08-16
  31. ^ 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.
  32. ^ http://www.vce.com/asset/documents/skyscape-casestudy.pdf. Skyscape Casestudy Online. Retrieved 2016-08-15.
  33. ^ http://www.arkdatacentres.co.uk. Ark Data Centres. Retrieved 2016-03-31./
  34. ^ "UKCloud supports public sector cloud innovation with Red Hat". www.redhat.com. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
  35. ^ "Crown Hosting – A Surprising Government Shared Service Story". Crown Hosting Data Centres. Retrieved 2020-02-03.
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