Type Private Website ukcloud.com Number of employees 150 | Industry Cloud Computing Founded 2011 Area served United Kingdom | |
Founders Jeff Thomas
Jeremy Sanders
Phil Dawson
Simon Hansford Headquarters Farnborough, United Kingdom | ||
UKCloud, previously named Skyscape Cloud Services, is a British public cloud company, headquartered in Farnborough, United Kingdom. It is one of the largest UK public sector cloud providers. The company was founded in 2011, rebranding as UKCloud in August 2016.
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History and background
The company was established in 2011, by co-founders Jeff Thomas, Jeremy Sanders, Phil Dawson and Simon Hansford, as Skyscape Cloud Services, but changed the name to UKCloud Ltd five years later following a legal wrangle with Sky.
UKCloud services are provided in partnership with QinetiQ, VMware, Cisco, EMC and Ark Data Centres.
UKCloud focuses on changing how the UK government purchases and uses IT services, detailed in the March 2011 UK Government ICT Strategy. The company has since sold to government through the G-Cloud frameworks Digital Marketplace and has been doing so since the first iteration of the framework in 2012.
By 2016 UKCloud had well over 100 employees and has announced its intention to double this figure during 2017.
UKCloud are subject to regular audits, assessments and inspections by certification bodies, regulators and accreditors. The firm has recently achieved ISO27018, and is also certified to ISO9001, ISO20000 and ISO27001.
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.
Awards
In 2016, UKCloud won the Communications Deloitte Technology Fast 500 EMEA Award. It has also won the Cloudex 20:20 Award and a UK IT Industry Award in 2013. and are winners of The Sunday Times Hiscox Tech Track 100 2016.
UKCloud were winners for the Tech Track 100, ranking number 1 in the league table in 2016.
Partnerships
In addition to its founding Alliance Partners, UKCloud has since announced a Cloud Native Cloud platform, based upon RedHat's Openstack, and an Oracle cloud platform.