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Manchester firm to supply government with cloud services

The Manchester cloud computing business Outsourcery is to provide secure cloud-based services to the UK government.

Outsourcery will deploy and manage a new platform to provide secure cloud-based services to the UK government and commercial sector organisations with similar security requirements.

Software giant Microsoft will offer direct technology design and implementation support to this new platform.

The deployment is part of Microsoft’s initiative to accelerate the offering of IL3 compliant cloud services through its cloud operating systems network.

Outsourcery said the public sector opportunity for cloud service providers is significant as the government transitions to cloud-based services.

The firm is already a supplier to the Government Procurement Service, alongside a number of its reseller partners, which provides access to 30,000 public sector organisations.

Chief executive, Piers Linney, said: “The deployment of an IL3 compliant version of our O-Cloud platform, powered by Microsoft, is a very significant development for Outsourcery.

“We expect it to represent a material revenue stream by the end of 2015, in addition to our existing commercial sector business.

“We will provide the UK government, as well as security sensitive commercial sector organisations, the broadest offering of IL3 compliant and fully integrated cloud-based services available in the UK that will span platform, applications, unified communications and Big Data storage and analytics.

“As well as the involvement of Microsoft, our large partners have been asking for such a capability as the government increasingly embraces cloud-based solutions for its ICT requirements.”

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