Assured cloud provider announced as the winner of the ‘Industry’ category and claims tenth overall
London – June 19th 2014 – Skyscape Cloud Services Limited, the easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave cloud services company, was announced as the winner of the ‘Industry’ category in the Digital Leaders 100 Awards at a gala event held at the Congress Centre, central London, on June 18th.
The Digital Leaders 100 list represents a vibrant and exciting community of digital innovators from across the UK and the awards ceremony was attended by senior digital professionals from across the government and private sector. As well as winning the Industry category, Skyscape was tenth overall in the list of 100 individuals, organisations and products making a real difference in the today’s world of citizen-facing digital services. The full list is available at: http://www.digitalbydefaultnews.co.uk/digital-leaders-100/winners/
“It is a great honour to have secured a win at this year’s Digital Leaders 100 Awards,” said Phil Dawson, CEO of Skyscape Cloud Services. “It has certainly been an exciting few months for our rapidly growing company. We are delighted to continue to be recognised for our success in disrupting the public sector market with our innovative and cost-effective cloud services.”
Skyscape was also announced as the winner of the Pathfinder 20 index of the UK’s most exciting emerging technology companies last month. Additionally, this latest award win follows a recent £4m minority stake investment from BGF (Business Growth Fund) – an independent company established to help Britain’s growing businesses – which is supporting the company’s rapid growth in the public sector market.
A firm supporter of the UK Government’s G-Cloud programme, Skyscape has achieved considerable success to date, having won a number of high-profile contracts with public sector organisations, including the Cabinet Office, Home Office, HMRC and MOD. Indirectly, via partners, Skyscape also supports infrastructure hosting a large number of other central government departments, and a growing number of local authorities and independent government organisations.
About Skyscape Cloud Services
Skyscape’s assured cloud solutions have been specifically designed to meet the needs of the UK public sector, delivering UK sovereign services that are easy to adopt, easy to use and easy to leave, with genuine pay by the hour consumption models. Skyscape is a certified Public Services Network (PSN) service provider and its full range of services has been accredited by CESG Pan Government Accreditor (PGA). As a UK SME, Skyscape has won a number of high-profile contracts via the G-Cloud Framework and is a key supporter of the programme. Its services are delivered with leading technologies from the Skyscape Cloud Alliance Partners: QinetiQ, VMware, Cisco, EMC and Ark Data Centres. Skyscape has been named a “Cool Vendor” by analyst firm, Gartner. To learn more about Skyscape, visit www.skyscapecloud.com or follow on Twitter @skyscapecloud
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Source: RealWire
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