Managed IT services:

Cloud Hosting

Best in class technology

Award-winning platforms, world-leading data centres and a failsafe network. We bring enterprise technology to UK SMEs so they take full advantage of the latest technology, giving them better performance, enhanced productivity and robust security solutions - and a better experience for their users.

Our business is built on technology, that’s why we work with best in breed. Partnerships with Cisco, VMware, NetApp, Veeam and Zerto mean we can build customised Clouds and create bespoke solutions to meet the most complex requirements.

Access Cloud Technology

Best in breed hardware

Our Cloud only uses the best enterprise level components from our partners to ensure that from the core to the edge your cloud performs whatever the workload.

No fixed instance configurations allowing you to allocate exactly the CPU, RAM and Disk you need for each cloud server
Our core network is deployed in an N+N 10Gb configuration which means individual component failures have zero impact on the availability of the network, to give you uninterrupted availability.
External Connectivity, protected by our BGP routing, is provided through multiple Tier 1 providers as standard to ensure that your system remains online 100% of the time.
Cisco ACI Software Defined Networking (SDN) provides unparalleled agility and management for even the most demanding and complex networking requirements.
Latest generation Cisco UCS Blades utilising Intel Scalable processors with multiple 10gb interconnects provide high performance and resilience.

Dedicated options including extreme performance systems utilising NVME or Nvidia GRID GPU acceleration are also available.

World-class data centres

Our data centres are purpose-built and designed from the ground up with flexibility, reliability, security and efficiency in mind.

Our data centres are in 7 locations on 4 continents - Europe, USA, Asia and Australia, to keep your data safe wherever disaster may strike.
Whatever your deployment needs are, we can create a solution that fits your business perfectly - today and in the future.
Our investment in the latest technology means that we can get your system up and running quickly and make changes efficiently.
Location, network services capacity and flexibility ensure data can move reliably and securely between you and your customers to avoid data delivery failure.
Highly efficient technology, advanced methodology and design flexibility plus bespoke components give you precisely what you need.
We only use data centre companies which are financially stable, so you can be assured your data is safe for the long-term.
Your infrastructure is located in one of our tier 3 facilities. Each location is ISO27001/SSAE-16 certified and highly optimised for cloud computing with N+1 or greater redundancy at all levels.

Industry-leading software

Access Cloud hosting solutions are built on the latest version of VMware software for secure, efficient and flexible cloud resources.

We offer our full vCloud Director allowing you to create fully resilient multi-site configurations for disaster recovery and load balancing.
Simple web portal means you can easily deploy the processor, CPU and SAN storage for your applications.
Easily build internal network, VPNs and other network resources.
Use vApps to create virtual groupings of VMs so you can deploy multiple machines at once, improving agility and reducing management.
Numerous operating system ISO images simplify installation of common Linux distributions.
Extensive use of the full enterprise licensing of VMware including vMotion and DRS means we meet our 100% uptime service level agreement.
VMware vCloud API is built on open industry standards allowing you to programmatically leverage capacity on our infrastructure.
Easily deploy additional resources in a private cloud environment with additional VMware toolsets, such as vRealize Operations Manager (vROPS) or VMware log Insight to help manage your systems.
Merge in-house VMware vSphere environments with our Cloud to create highly adaptive hybrid clouds.

Dedicated cloud servers

For dedicated cloud servers, we offer VMware vSphere provides a powerful, flexible, and secure foundation for business agility that accelerates your digital transformation to hybrid cloud.

Our Cloud utilises vSphere – Vmware’s industry standard hypervisor - to help move between systems without having to perform conversions or reinstalls.
Advanced monitoring from tools like vROPS allows better insight into the environment – leading to improved management, better response times to issues and compliance reporting.
Support new workloads and use cases while keeping pace with the growing needs and complexity of your infrastructure and support for new technologies such as containers, DevOps-based automated deployments and Infrastructure as Code.

Highest standards of information security

We maintain and deliver the highest standards of confidentiality, data integrity and cloud security.

An extensive range of policies and procedures ensure your data integrity and security upon a compliant Information Security Management System (ISMS) which covers all aspects of our business including staff, physical servers and logical systems.
Our architecture is designed to exceed business critical compliance requirements including SSAE16 SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS and ISO27001.

Our Cloud is ISO27001 certified and UK government gCloud approved, meeting the highest security standards.

All datacentres are SSAE16/ISO27001 compliant.

Our strict information security policies and procedures ensure PCI DSS compliance is readily achievable on our platform.

Regular auditing of our work, policies and procedures ensure further data security.

End-to-end data encryption protects against cyber-security risks and attacks.

Built-in security features and automated actions give you extra peace of mind.

Systems and data are stored using highly resilient SSD technology.