Develop agile cloud native workloads underpinned by open source technology.
Does your organisation want to underpin its digital transformation with open source? Maybe you want to move away from licensing fees or you’re drawn to the growing security benefits that have become synonymous with open standards? Whatever your reasons, more and more organisations are turning to open source.
UKCloud for OpenStack provides you with all the tools you need to modernise legacy workloads and kick-start your journey to cloud-native. By hosting your applications on our government-grade platform, you can start to deliver a true cloud-native experience for your most secure and sensitive systems. Enjoy the benefits of elastic infrastructure as code and rapid deployment times with UKCloud for OpenStack.
Is UKCloud for OpenStack is the right choice for you?
Your data is a national asset and needs to be treated as such.
Our military-grade data centres ensure your data never leaves the UK. Keeping you ahead of the game when it comes to strict data regulations such a GDPR and Schrems II.
With native access to key government networks, you can move workloads to the cloud which were once restricted to hardwired, local access. Improve data interoperability and application availability in just a few clicks.
All our customers benefit from an allocated Service Delivery Manager who is responsible for ensuring a world-class experience with our brands from the get-go. And with a current NPS score of +56, they’re doing a pretty good job.
From Elevated OFFICIAL to Above OFFICIAL, whatever your security requirements, we’ve put the necessary measures in place so you can move your most secure and sensitive systems to the cloud.
We take security seriously. And yes, whilst our Tier-2 technical capability is one of a kind, it’s the people and processes we’ve put in place that enables us to offer a secure cloud service with multiple security domains. Pan Government Accreditation to IL3 (IL4 by aggregation), UKCloud is the first High Assurance cloud for above OFFICIAL workloads.
Leverage our low latency connections to Crown Hosting and build hybrid, private or public cloud solutions that span both of our UK sovereign data centres (Farnborough and Corsham) – which are over 120km apart.
As a fundamental requirement for Cloud hosting, UKCloud constantly monitors the platform usage down to specific cloud technologies. Our capacity management process takes into account organic growth, forecasted growth by customers, and suitable reserved capacity for unexpected usage.
Aggregate and share information between multiple security domains or give secure internet-enabled access to government-grade networks. Whatever your requirements, CDSZ removes one of the biggest blockers to cloud adoption in the public sector. Aligned to NCSC’s Cloud Security Principles - you can rest easy your data is in safe hands.
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The most widely adopted and understood open source cloud platform, Red Hat OpenStack provides you with a familiar service and an active open source community
Supports the UK public sector’s desire to avoid vendor lock-in, providing a portable solution allowing you to switch provider without substantial switching costs
Helping you accelerate cloud development to improve workload efficiency and reduce costs through sharing code
Compatible with popular continuous integration and delivery pipeline tools, as well as full support for containerisation including Docker, Kubernetes and OpenShift
UKCloud for OpenStack has been optimised for OFFICIAL and OFFICIAL-SENSITIVE data (Above OFFICIAL available on request), as well as for dynamic and self-healing workloads
Span your solution across on-premises, private cloud and Crown Hosting to support your hybrid and multi-cloud strategies, as well as mitigating risk through geo-resilience
Red Hat Ceph® Storage is a software-defined storage platform that’s engineered for private cloud architectures. Integrated with Red Hat OpenStack Platform and all of OpenStack’s open source projects, Red Hat Ceph Storage lets you provision hundreds of virtual machines and build fully supported cloud platforms.
Whilst hardware runs 24/7, 365 days a year – it’s likely you only need to stand up the majority of your applications for a fraction of that time. Benefit from pay-as-you-go (PAYG) pricing and improved application availability as you transition to the cloud.
We’ve always encouraged public sector organisations to start small, but start today. We know all too well that seeing is believing, which is why we’re happy to migrate applications of any size to a secure, government-grade facility. A digital transformation is a marathon, not a sprint.
Unlike many cloud service providers, UKCloud does not charge for the ingress or egress of data, or for database lookups/queries. This allows for true consumption-based billing with no hidden charges.
Customers commit to spending a specific minimum amount each month for a minimum of 12 months. The discount level attained is based on the total spend committed for the 12 months and can range from 9% (minimum spend of £250,000) to 19% (minimum spend of £1,500,000). More information is available via the pricing guide.
This discount system is aimed at customers who consistently utilise a number of VMs that are running 24/7 throughout the year. Customers can gain a discount off the standard rates by subscribing to pay for VMs for a minimum 12-month period, and UKCloud will take the discount off the annualised hourly cost of the VM which is payable in 12 equal monthly payments, regardless of actual usage. A standard discount rate of 9% is available over 12 months of committed usage.
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