UKCloud Announces Tenth Round of Price Reductions

UKCloud Ltd, a cloud services company, announced its tenth round of price reductions, which are phased from January, 1, 2017, across two of its services: Cloud Storage and Enterprise Compute Cloud.

The result of economies of scale and investment in hyper-converged infrastructure, these price reductions coincide with price hikes elsewhere in the industry, particularly from US corporations.

UKCloud’s Cloud Storage provides a cost-effective storage repository for a variety of sensitive data assets, including body worn video and medical data. The company’s investment in hyper-converged infrastructure has refreshed the cloud storage platform, which is designed to deliver improved performance and functionality at a reduced cost. Customers with large-scale requirements will pay 1.5p/GB/month; this is a reduction of 66% and makes UKCloud’s offering cheaper than those of the US cloud providers. Customers with smaller requirements will see the price of their services fall by almost 80%, from 9p/GB/month to 2p/GB/month.

“We’re delighted that our continued growth means that we can pass on these savings to our public sector customers,” said Simon Hansford, CEO, UKCloud. “While we’re now well known for introducing price cuts on a regular basis, our tenth wave of reductions coincides with cost increases from other providers, most notably US corporations. This means that not only are our services genuinely UK sovereign and as such, our customers’ data is never subject to far reaching foreign data privacy issues, but they are also more cost competitive than ever before.“

“We welcome UKCloud’s continued focus not only on client service, but also client value. The latest price reductions, following a number of earlier such reductions, demonstrate UKCloud’s ongoing focus on innovation and efficiency in order to continue sharing cost savings with its clients,” commented Joanna Smith, CIO, Royal Brompton & Harefield NHS Foundation Trust. “The business case for using cloud is continually strengthened as additional price reductions are realised. This reduction of storage costs made possible by UKCloud’s continued growth and scale have the potential to deliver immediate savings and increase value.“

“We’re delighted that UKCloud is reducing the cost of cloud storage from the beginning of the New Year,” commented Matt Howell, EVP and head of public sector, applications services, Capgemini. “This will help our clients and enable us to continue to build cost effective, innovative and agile solutions for the UK public sector market.“

Karen Young, MD at MDS Technologies Ltd, added: “The price of cloud storage affects us, as we use storage repository for a multitude of sensitive data assets. Thanks to UKCloud, this reduction in cost will give us the best possible price point, and enable us to build our solutions around it.”

David Strong, head of infrastructure solutions, Sopra Steria commented: “We’re delighted that our partner UKCloud, is reducing the cost of cloud storage from the beginning of the new year. This will really help us to build cost effective, innovative and agile solutions for the UK public sector market.“

Various VM sizes on UKCloud’s Enterprise Compute Cloud will also see significant price drops from February 1, 2017. The VMware powered cloud platform provides reliable and flexible hosting of a variety of VMs and customer workloads. Due to the continued growth of its platform, UKCloud has experienced additional scale economies that it is passing on to its customers. These apply to its largest VM sizes of the POWER service type, commonly used by customers to run databases and other large enterprise applications. Prices of these larger VMs are being reduced by up to 43%; for example, a VM previously costing £1.05 per hour will now cost 60p.

The price reductions will apply to both the Internet connected Assured OFFICIAL cloud platform, as well as UKCloud’s Elevated OFFICIAL cloud platform, which provides the scalability and flexibility of a cloud platform in the lower risk environment of public sector networks.

UKCloud is committed to making it more cost-effective for public sector customers to run large enterprise workloads and to store sensitive data in the cloud. A combination of security credentials, service performance and an ongoing commitment to providing value, confirm UKCloud’s position to support the ongoing digital transformation in the public sector.