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@UK PLC is the leading European Cloud Platform. The platform supports rapid application development via its Application Generator, and allows end users to create forms and pages. The core application is the @UK PLC ecommerce marketplace that is pre-integrated to all major finance systems and used by NHS, Schools, Universities, Colleges and Local Authorities to trade with their major suppliers. The major suppliers use it as their global ecommerce platform that works across every country in the world. Our cloud based Spend Analysis SpendInsight grew by 280% last year and has now passed the £100 billion of spend analysed using breakthrough Artificial Intelligence technology that resulted in 2 PhD's.

@UK PLC believe that they have the fastest and most efficient web application stack, along with a next generation clustered email service Cloud Email 4 Business. There are over 1 million users on the @Cloud, which has been PCI/DSS compliant since 2005, and is the place to build any app from a simple blog to an AI analysis system, pre-integrated into all the major finance systems.

 

APMG-International is a global examination institute providing accreditation and certification services. Via our network of Accredited Consultancy and Training Organisations, we help end users develop their professional skills and organisations improve their processes through the adoption of worldwide best practice.

 

ChannelCloud, established ten years ago in the United States, launched in the UK and Ireland in January 2011 and is rapidly making its presence felt in the Cloud arena.

ChannelCloud is a new era cloud computing solution provider. It has developed a first-of-kind fully integrated cloud platform, and is building a federation of ChannelCloud partners across the UK and Ireland who share a vision for a new, truly comprehensive method of delivering IT services to clients.

A vision that weaves the technologies available, along with some proprietary components, into a cohesive fabric integrating all facets of clients’ businesses, as well as the business processes of the MSP partner. One that provides real end-to-end solutions so clients can work on their core business strengths and forget about the technology that makes that work possible.

You will not find another Cloud Aggregator who understands MSPs and their client’s businesses better.

 
About Dell
Dell Inc. (NASDAQ: DELL) listens to customers and delivers innovative technology and services that give them the power to do more. For more information, visit www.dell.com.
 

Fasthosts is a leading and long established web hosting and IT services provider. We host over 1 million domains and handle over 42 million emails securely and efficiently each day. All our services can be self-managed through the award winning Fasthosts web-based Control Panel that provides our customers with unparalleled online control, enabling them to manage hosted services including domain registrations, shared web hosting, business-class email, virtual servers, dedicated servers, secure online storage, secure online backup, software-as-a-service, internet merchant accounts and unlimited broadband internet access. Fasthosts has been awarded Microsoft Hyper-V Cloud Partner of the Year 2010, and Microsoft Global Hosting Partner of the Year 2011.
Fasthosts' maintains an award-winning and highly successful reseller channel. Headquartered in the UK, we operate 24/7 from our dedicated data centres that serve the UK and USA on territory.

 

FireHost, is a secure cloud hosting company that delivers hosting solutions to healthcare IT, SaaS and eCommerce around the world that have HIPAA or PCI compliance and high traffic needs. Advanced security and a comprehensive portfolio of hosting solutions helps FireHost protect companies from threats to their websites, applications, and valuable data.  Additionally, every FireHost Secure Cloud Server is fully managed by a staff of expert engineers available 24x7x365 via phone, liv chat or ticket.

 

FrontRange Solutions is a leading developer of IT Service, IT Asset and Customer Management solutions designed to help organizations increase the efficiency and profitability of their internal and external customers. FrontRange is committed to delivering its solutions through the channels that best meet its customers’ business needs, whether on-premise or in the cloud.

With its SaaS2 technology, FrontRange Solutions is the only vendor to deliver fully mature IT Service and IT Asset management solutions through a Software as a Service model. SaaS2 provides all the benefits of traditional ITSM SaaS applications while also adding incremental customer benefits, ranging from a complete solutions portfolio and greater customer control, to optimized Web 2.0 platforms and domain expert services.

 

Ingram Micro is the world’s largest global wholesaler of technology products and supply chain management services.  As a vital link in the technology value chain, Ingram Micro creates sales and profitability opportunities for vendors and resellers through unique marketing programs, outsourced logistics, technical and financial support, managed and cloud-based services, and product aggregation and distribution. The company is the only global broad-based IT distributor, serving more than 150 countries on six continents with the world’s most comprehensive portfolio of IT products and services.

 

Insight has developed a dedicated Cloud Services Division consisting of a team of cloud computing specialists and incorporating key partners such as Google Apps and Microsoft's Online software as a service (Office 365). The Insight Cloud service allows clients to access through one secure portal, Enterprise SaaS applications from world leading providers and to be able to procure and provision online in real time and to receive one consolidated bill.
 
User & Administrator Support Services
These services range from basic set up through to customisation and management of SaaS applications such as Google Apps and Office 365 to fit the needs of your organisation.
 
Deployment and Migration Services
Google Apps & Office 365 Email Migration Service migrates the customer from their existing legacy mail server to Google Apps & Office 365 with the interactive assistance of experienced technical specialists.
 
Training Services
Cloud Skills training courses provide migration and transition assistance for your users to get the best out of Office 365 and Google Apps.

 

Interxion is a leading provider of carrier-neutral colocation data centre services in Europe, serving over 1,200 customers through 28 data centres in 11 European countries. Interxion's uniformly designed, energy-efficient data centres offer customers extensive security and uptime for their mission-critical applications.

With connectivity provided by 350 carriers and ISPs and 18 European Internet exchanges across its footprint, Interxion has created content and connectivity hubs that foster growing customer communities of interest. For more information, please visit www.interxion.com.

 

intY operates in the rapidly growing cloud computing market space where it delivers enterprise class solutions both directly and indirectly, via domestic and global strategic partners. Founded 14 years ago, intY has been at the forefront of pay as you go managed IT and security services from its inception.

intY delivers Microsoft messaging and collaboration solutions which are integrated with intY internet security and complementary OEM applications, to deliver a one touch deployment and management solution.

Named the fastest growing South West Technology Company by Deloitte, intY has featured in The Sunday Times Tech Track 100, has a dedicated team of PRINCE2 qualified project managers working within an ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 accredited framework, is a founder member of the Internet Watch Foundation, achieved Microsoft Syndication Partner for Microsoft Online Services as well as being a Microsoft Gold Partner.

 
Founded in 1994, Mamut is a leading European provider of complete, integrated software solutions and internet services for SMEs. Mamut offers complete and user-friendly solutions at the best value for money integrating; CRM, sales force, logistics, accounting, e-commerce, domains, e-mail, web hosting and security.

The solutions have been judged award winning with its software winning four Accountancy Age Awards in the Small Business Software category. In addition to Microsoft naming Mamut as its 'Development Partner of the Year 'in the Software-plus-Services category at the 2009 Worldwide Partner Awards.

More than 400,000 European customers simplify their daily business with solutions from Mamut.
 

Memset has been successfully providing managed hosting and dedicated servers for over 9 years, winning many awards for service and reliability, including the 2011 ISPA Best Managed Service award and the PCPro Best Web Host award for the last six years.

They have been leaders in the UK's virtual server market since inception and today are at the forefront of the cloud revolution with their Miniserver VM® cloud compute and Memstore™ cloud storage solutions. Memset was also recently invited to be part of the G-Cloud IaaS/PaaS foundation delivery partner activities. They were the first hosting company to gain all three of ISO9001 quality, ISO14001 environmental and ISO27001 information security certified management systems and in 2006 Memset became Britain's first carbon neutral ISP.

 

Founded in 1975, Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT") is the worldwide leader in software, services and solutions that help people and businesses realize their full potential.

 

Nominet operates at the heart of e-commerce in the UK, running the .uk Internet registry. They maintain the register of over 8 million domain names and run the technology that makes the .uk Internet name space work.

Nominet’s stable, secure management of the registry, simple registration process and network of members and registrars has built consumer confidence in .uk. They have also developed .uk into a trusted top level domain within the business sector, with many big brands choosing .co.uk as their primary web address.

 

Outsourcery is one of the world's leading providers of Cloud-based IT and unified communications solutions for business as well as an award winning provider of professional services. Microsoft named Outsourcery as its worldwide 'Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year' and 'Dynamics Hosting Partner of the Year' at the 2010 Worldwide Partner Awards.

The company is the UK's leading provider of hosted Dynamics CRM and is named in the Presidents Club for Microsoft Dynamics; one of top 5% of Microsoft Dynamics partners worldwide based on sales achievement. The company is proud to be carbon neutral and a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with seven competencies.

 
Phoenix is uniquely placed to provide medium to large enterprises with cloud-enabled services that will increase efficiency and reduce costs, with the ability to scale your IT infrastructure up and down on a pay-as-you-go basis.
 
With Phoenix, the benefits of cloud can be enjoyed without compromising the security of your data.  With 5 of our own datacentres around the UK, a Phoenix private cloud is one that you can touch and trust. As a result, migrating to the cloud with Phoenix offers enhanced risk management and business continuity.
 
Our consulting services provide a successful transition to the most appropriate cloud model and a solution that meets your business requirements. On-going service includes UK-based service desk, desk side support and a full range of managed services.
 
Phoenix was formed from the merger of ICM and Phoenix IT Services. In addition to cloud and hosting, we offer an end-to-end services portfolio to over 3,600 customers.
For further information, visit www.phoenix.co.uk
 

Rackspace Hosting is the world’s leader in the hosting and cloud computing industry and has been ranked in Financial Times Top 50 Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom for the past six years.

Rackspace provides Fanatical Support ® to its customers, across a portfolio of IT services, including Managed Hosting and Cloud Computing.

 

Rise operates an Infrastructure-as-a-Service platform to supply high-quality cloud computing solutions for resale by our partners, based on our DataCenter on Demand™ service. We equip our channel partners with the infrastructure they need to provide cloud services for the SMB market. This includes virtual and dedicated servers, storage, backup, web hosting and disaster recovery, all of which are hosted from the secure infrastructure of Rise's UK or US data centres (serving our customers within those territories) with 24/7/365 support. Rise infrastructure supports all server based applications, and our cloud services can be implemented as a stand-alone service or securely integrated with an existing on-premise business network.

For our partners, we enable them to extend their business model from a point of strength, and offer both existing on-premise and new online solutions as a whole portfolio at competitive rates, while providing their business with new revenue streams and greater customer retention opportunity.

 

Scalable Software is a leading innovator in delivering cost-effective IT Asset Lifecycle Management. We sell and support our solutions through a network of long-standing partner relationships worldwide. Since 1999, over 10,000 organizations worldwide have used Scalable solutions to manage and control expense across their IT estates, reporting a substantial return on investment (ROI) and a reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO). Focused on oustanding customer service, Scalable was recently voted #1 in the ITAM Review Customer Satisfaction survey.

With the release of Scalable LIVE!®, Scalable has given progressive organizations the opportunity to exploit the power of cloud computing to harness the benefits of the next-generation of IT Asset Management innovation.

 

ScienceLogic helps service providers and enterprises streamline IT operations and cloud management with a complete view of IT service delivery across all computing resources. The company's award-winning EM7 product is a multi-tenant solution engineered to deliver comprehensive systems, network, application, and cloud management out-of-the-box and be easily customized.

The EM7 technology provides high-availability proactive monitoring, asset tracking, automation, integrated service desk, a centralized data repository, and a "single pane of glass" view across the NOC, remote data centers and the cloud - all optimized to work together for proactive and efficient IT operations management.

 

Simplexo Ltd is focused on delivering a new experience in mobile search, and is founded on a solid history in electronic document management and retrieval.

Today, Simplexo technology is delivering value to individuals and organisations by enabling them to remotely access personal & business information, web and social networking content.

 

CIOs tell us they want on-demand computing and communication services to help run their businesses and achieve competitive advantage. Cloud computing powers a full range of services that can be delivered to help business people communicate and share information more effectively and securely.

UK businesses want to avoid up-front costs for hardware and software and have everything managed for them by technical specialists who adhere to the highest levels of customer service and support.

In this way Star customers make business technology easy to use and pay for with services that adapt, providing increased mobility, security and flexibility.

 
Telehouse offers global data centre facilities and connectivity, providing a secure and resilient platform for mission-critical IT systems. Established in 1988, Telehouse became Europe’s first purpose-built neutral colocation provider. Today, the company is at the heart of the Internet and telecommunications infrastructure, serving over 1,000 major corporations worldwide, from small start-ups to multinationals across a wide range of industries. Telehouse is the data centre subsidiary of Japanese corporation KDDI, one of the world’s largest network providers and a Global 300 company.
 
 

Trustmarque is a market-leading Value Added Reseller and provider of technology services and solutions to UK private and public sector organisations.  Trustmarque has been a trusted advisor to customers on issues relating to technology for over 24 years, helping companies to make sense of their complex IT environments by unlocking the value of technology, improving efficiencies and reducing costs.

Trustmarque acquired infrastructure and hosted services provider Nimbus Technology Systems Ltd in 2011.  The acquisition provides Trustmarque with enhanced cloud delivery services and an expanded portfolio of managed cloud services from simple hosted email systems right through to completed hosted IT and Telecoms systems for larger organisations. 

Trustmarque holds ISO9001/2000, ISO14001, OHSAS18001 and ISO27001 certifications, is OGC accredited and has achieved the Investors in People standard.  In addition Trustmarque's employees are ITIL and PRINCE2 qualified.

 

UKFast is one of Europe’s fastest-growing technical companies (as ranked by Deloitte) and has been at the heart of the UK hosting solutions industry for over a decade. As well as being the UK IT Awards ‘Employer of the Year’ 2010, UKFast has been named the ISPA’s ‘Best Hosting Provider’ four years consecutively.

UKFast is a specialist in managed hosting solutions dealing with blue chip organisations and competitive SMBs. Having worked with Microsoft to develop cloud platforms, UKFast launched the UK’s first large scale cloud environment in summer 2009, developed primarily with Hyper-V technology. Today, the UKFast Cloud caters for both Windows and Linux users and as a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner UKFast has a 95.8% positive customer feedback rating.

 
 
UNIT4 is a global business software company that creates, delivers and supports adaptable software and services worldwide, to help dynamic organisations manage their business needs effectively. We strive to set the global standard for business solutions that help dynamic organisations to embrace change - simply, quickly and cost effectively.
 
In the UK, we aim to be the country’s foremost business software company: providing change-embracing solutions – including the Agresso Business World ERP suite and CODA financial management software – that transform the delivery of public services and comprehensively support the ability of commercial organisations to adapt and prosper in rapidly changing environments. 
 

Webroot provides industry-leading Internet security solutions for consumers, enterprises and small and medium businesses worldwide. Webroot products consistently receive top review ratings by respected third parties and have been adopted by millions globally. With a wide range of online security offerings, Webroot protects individuals and corporate networks from threats such as viruses, hackers, data exposure, spam, spyware and more, utilising cloud computing power in its security solutions.

Founded in 1997, Webroot is based in Colorado and has more than 450 employees. The company actively supports the community and the environment through a variety of programs, including charitable support and a "Go Green" initiative.

 

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