UK Solutions launches cloud and hosted hybrid

UK datacentre  provider UK Solutions (UKS) has launched its first cloud and hosted service for  partners using VMware (NYSE:VMW) technology to offer “close to Amazon” pricing, according to Dan Lowe, founder and managing director.
 
The Internet Group has become the new cloud’s first major partner, having switched around 200 customers onto the wholesale pricing model that allows partners to allocate shared resources on a granular basis.
 
UK Solutions is offering its “UKS Managed Private Cloud  Platform” as a  wholesale package for partners to divvy up as they see fit: “We have a couple of distinct advantages,” claims Lowe. “We have a datacentre that can be checked, security that has been audited and real customers on the service.” The firm has also been recently awarded ‘ListX’ status to allow it to work with highly sensitive government departments as well as ISO 27001 certifications across it two datacentres.
 
The vanilla service, which uses VMware  containers which can host any virtual server although “email and web servers”,  has initially proven popular, explains Adam Maurice, MD and co-founder of The Internet Group. He also believes that firms that want to virtualise and outsource parts of their IT infrastructure are also on the rise with the prominence of cloud computing.
 
The Internet Group is the first of around eight partners that are migrating clients into the UKS Cloud, and Lowe believes that costs are competitive: “If you sweat the assets we provide, the cost are comparable to an Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) solution.”
 
Lowe is confident that the service’s ability to allow partners to define contention, performance and bandwidth ratios allows for a pricing model that will prove profitable for partners without having to sacrifice the SLAs or audited security that public clouds like Amazon still lack.