Compute as a Service
Available from £146 per Virtual Machine per month
Hardware and software to underpin your entire IT strategy
Infrastructure as a Service gives you the opportunity to completely change the way you manage your IT budget. Massive capital investments go out the window and predictable, monthly costs take over. You can scale up and down as and when you need to so you will always know exactly how much your IT is going to cost.
Compute as a service lets you fire up more server power as you need it, or lets you scale it back if demand reduces. No wasteful, over-specifying servers to handle peak loads that rarely happen, and then finding them lying almost idle most of the time.
Reduce your costs by up to 70%
Improve efficiency and availability of IT resources and applications through virtualisation. Whatever your data security requirements, from IL0 to IL3, we will deliver your operating system via highly secure Virtual Machines dedicated to the Public Sector.
Whether you want to manage it yourself or let us take control of management, monitoring, back up and security, we will give you the latest technology running to the highest performance and security levels that could ultimately reduce your IT costs by up to 70%.
Technical Features
- Based on a Virtual Machine (VM)
- Provides both Burst and Elastic capabilities for CPU, Memory and Storage
- Includes a guaranteed set of resources defined at purchase
- Connected to a number of networks, both Internet and Government specific, dependant on security level
- Provides Disaster Recovery (DR) and failover from our 2nd UK data centre dependant on the availability Service Level Agreement (SLA) required
- Built upon industry standard components and services and incorporates Open Standards where these have been defined
- Includes a hardened, standardised Operation System capable of operating on an Intel platform that incorporates relevant management and security agents
- Backed up each evening, with a standard 10 day retention period
- Delivered from a private infrastructure platform available only to the UK Government community
- Internet, VPN, GCSX, GSi, PSN network connections
- Minimum Contract 1 Month
- Data centre conforms to and exceeds the open uptime standards to a Tier 3 data centre
Sample pricing
A full service specification is also available for each individual service. Please ring or use the form below to get further details.
If required, the 99.90% services are available to buy on the Government Cloudstore. You can find them by going to the Cloudstore and searching for the relevant part no. shown below.
| Available Compute Services | Cloudstore Part No. |
IL Level | Metric | Period | Price | Price |
| 99.90% | 99.95% | |||||
| Unmanaged Base Virtual Machine – 500MHz CPU & 4GB RAM |
G100.004 G100.005 G100.006 |
IL0 IL2 IL3 |
Per VM Per VM Per VM |
Per Month Per Month Per Month |
£146.00 £186.00 £195.00 |
£191.00 £272.00 £285.00 |
| Managed Base Virtual Machine – 500MHz CPU & 4GB RAM |
G100.001 G100.002 G100.003 |
IL0 IL2 IL3 |
Per VM Per VM Per VM |
Per Month Per Month Per Month |
£185.00 £226.00 £236.00 |
£244.00 £330.00 £344.00 |
The table below shows a range of upgrade prices, feel free to call for a quote or request further details using the form below.
| Upgrades Available To Our Base Virtual Machine | IL Level | Metric | Period | Price | Price |
| 99.90% | 99.95% | ||||
| 1GB Memory Increment |
IL0 IL2 IL3 |
Per GB Per GB Per GB |
Per Month Per Month Per Month |
£20.00 £20.00 £20.00 |
£37.00 £37.00 £37.00 |
| 100MHz Core Increment – Burst |
IL0 IL2 IL3 |
Per 100Mhz Per 100Mhz Per 100Mhz |
Per Month Per Month Per Month |
£13.00 £13.00 £13.00 |
£25.00 £25.00 £25.00 |
| 100MHz Core Increment – Committed |
IL0 IL2 IL3 |
Per 100Mhz Per 100Mhz Per 100Mhz |
Per Month Per Month Per Month |
£9.00 £9.00 £9.00 |
£16.00 £16.00 £16.00 |
This is example pricing, feel free to call for a quote.
