PRESS RELEASE

Release date: 19^th November 2013

New K3 division will deploy public sector cloud all over the globe

A new IT consultancy division has been set up in the UK by the established K3 Business Technology Group, to deploy secure public sector cloud services all over the world with access to over 300 international datacentres.

K3 Hosting has been launched in response to overwhelming demand throughout the UK and overseas for cloud-based IT services from organisations in the public sector. The company builds on the strong foundations laid down by the previous K3 Managed Services division, with products and services being expanded and further developed to provide a wide range of cloud and managed service support. K3 Business Technology Group is already working in some NHS departments and expects to make further moves into the public sector with the launch of this new division.

K3 Hosting has been set up to help solve some of the most specific IT management challenges facing public sector organisations today: the need for more secure IT backup, greater transparency and tracking of critical systems, and improved public service delivery.

The public sector has experienced a number of large scale data breaches in recent months. Aberdeen City Council was fined £100,000 by the Information Commissioner’s Office in September for data breaches, while the health authority was penalised by data regulators to the sum of £200,000 for releasing private records of patients to the general public. The biggest public sector breach was that of NHS Surrey which had vital data accessed when it was left on a discarded hard drive.

K3 Hosting offers a solution to these problems through its unique Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) provision, which takes away the challenges of constantly having to invest in, maintain, and manage datacentre infrastructures for public sector organisations. K3 Hosting’s IaaS offering is a hosted Enterprise Class Cloud Service built on the latest technology to allow options for dedicated or shared IT infrastructure resources, allowing organisations to shift their IT focus and receive dynamic, hassle-free and dynamic IT provision, integrating systems from end to end and with secure data storage offsite.

IaaS is just one unique service from the new company, which also provides the more traditional Software as a Service (SaaS), Hardware as a Service (HaaS) and Network as a Service (NaaS) infrastructure services, often integrating provision with Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS) and Project Management facilities. The result is a complete one-stop-shop for IT infrastructure support, maintenance, and protection.

The internet has developed from a communication network to what has been termed the ‘internet of things’, where the internet connects traffic management systems, buildings, bank cash-machines, and much more. As the UK moves to ‘digital-by-default’ for convenience and to reduce costs, public sector organisations need to recognise their own vulnerability to data breaches and poor information management and identify solutions to this growing concern.

K3 Hosting is backed by the support of the wider K3 Business Technology Group, a company ranked number 30 in the top 100 Value Added Reseller list and well established within the IT market. Neil Farnworth, Managing Director of K3 Hosting, brings 20 years of experience working in the technology industry to the company and has experienced for himself how the popularity of cloud infrastructures has grown globally over the past few years among the public sector and the vital role it will play in years to come. He is joined by Director, Ed Renwick, a datacentre, cloud and managed services expert, and a team of 70 staff working in roles ranging from engineering through to sales, support and project management.

Neil Farnworth said: “Data breach is a real issue for public sector organisations and they need to make sure that the critical information they hold never falls into the wrong hands. Our team has worked in the public sector for many years and understands the challenges that organisations face daily, and the new challenges that are on the horizon. We use this experience to develop our own IT consultancy solutions that take care of managing IT infrastructures, protecting data and backing up important information.”

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About K3 Hosting

K3 Hosting provides proactive, flexible and tailored outsourced IT services to businesses all over the world, helping them to improve their IT infrastructures and gain more from investments in people and technology. From taking responsibility for IT systems and moving them to the cloud, to designing and implementing systems for companies to self-manage, K3 Hosting provides a range of products and services suitable for all types of business.

For further information, please contact:-

Editorial – Ed Renwick, Director, K3 Hosting on 0161 876 4498, or John Edden, Bridge PR & Media Services on 024 76 520025, or e-mail john@bridgepr.co.uk.