Public and medical cloud provider UKCloud has won the OpenStack Superuser Award at the OpenStack Summit held May 8-11, 2017 in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. With headquarters in Farnborough, Hampshire, United Kingdom, UKCloud, specialises in catering to the UK’s Public Sector, but recently launched a healthcare division. It offers “easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave assured cloud services”. The company won its latest award alongside joint winner Paddy Power Betfair.OpenStack is an Open Source (OS) cloud computing software platform that is available free of charge. It is traditionally utilised as an Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) solution. The OpenStack Superuser Awards were established in 2014 and recognise companies and other organisations that have leveraged OpenStack to enhance their businesses and have at same time contributed to their communities. The award’s previous winners include major companies like AT&T, Comcast and NTT Group.
"UKCloud is helping the UK government innovate with an assured cloud platform that supports services including online tax returns and genomic data analytics amongst many other key citizen facing applications,” explained the OpenStack Foundation’s Executive Director, Jonathan Bryce. “With a cloud-first strategy and a commitment to open standards built on technologies like OpenStack, the UK government has saved £600 million and earned recognition from the United Nations as the most digitally advanced government in the world. This Superuser Award presented to UKCloud is an ideal reflection of the power of OpenStack to transform IT."
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