Partnership with Dell to design IL3 platform

6 October 2013

Outsourcery plc

Outsourcery and Dell join forces to design and deploy high security IL3 compliant cloud platform for UK Government

Outsourcery plc (AIM: OUT, 'Outsourcery'), the pure-play provider of cloud-based IT and unified communications services, announces that it is working with Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) to design and deploy the compute, storage and networking infrastructure for its IL3 offering for the UK's central government. As a supplier of technology and services to the UK's public sector, Dell is well positioned as a strategic go-to-market partner for this solutions-led offering.

This follows Outsourcery's recent announcement about its agreement with Microsoft Corporation (NASDAQ: MSFT) to lead its UK initiative to accelerate the offering of IL3 compliant cloud services for the UK public sector and especially central government.

Outsourcery and Dell are working together to design and deploy a highly scalable and modular platform capable of supporting the next generation of Microsoft technologies on which the IL3 compliant platform will be based. With Dell's position as a significant supplier to the UK government, they also offer a route to market for Outsourcery's IL3 compliant services. Dell has also worked very closely with Microsoft on its next generation platform technology to reduce the complexity and costs of implementing robust, flexible and highly scalable cloud solutions.

The public sector opportunity is significant for Outsourcery and its partners as the government transitions to cloud-based services. During October 2013, a range of Outsourcery's services were accepted onto the latest G4 (G-Cloud) framework. The G-Cloud is the government procurement framework and is delivered as a web catalogue of approved cloud services.

Outsourcery's IL3 platform will be unique to the UK market, providing a complete range of platform, application and unified communications and messaging services. The second phase of the offering will also include data storage, archiving, backup, followed by services for Big Data analytics as the amount of data stored for the government increases over time. As a result of its strong strategic partner relationships and partnerships with technology partners such as Dell, Outsourcery is particularly well-placed to provide the UK government with a complete set of cloud-based offerings.

Piers Linney, Outsourcery's Co-CEO, said:

"Outsourcery is partnering with Dell as well as Microsoft Corporation to deploy and monetise what will be a unique IL3 compliant platform providing a wide range of services to the UK Government and sensitive commercial sector organisations. Dell is also well placed to provide cloud-based services to the government in line with the government's cloud first ICT procurement strategy."

"Dell has worked closely with Microsoft to ensure that the hardware and networking technology underlying the platform which will be based on next generation Microsoft software is highly efficient and scalable."

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About Outsourcery: Outsourcery is a world-leading Cloud Service Provider (CSP) based in the UK. The Group is channel focused and aims to remove the need for businesses of all sizes to own and manage IT, unified communications and video applications and infrastructure. End-customers range from start-ups to FTSE-100 companies.

Outsourcery has one of the broadest offerings of cloud-based services based on Microsoft technology in the world, covering hosted software applications, virtualised servers and next generation unified communications (based on Lync Server) and collaboration solutions as well professional services to customise and integrate solutions for end-customers. Outsourcery was a founder member of the UK Cloud Industry Forum and is ISO 27001 (Information Security), ISO 9001 (Quality Management) and ISO 14001 (Environmental Management) accredited as well as being able to deliver CESG IL2 accredited solutions for the public sector.

Outsourcery was named both Microsoft's worldwide 'Hosting Solutions Partner of the Year' and its worldwide 'Dynamics Hosting Partner of the Year' in 2010. The Company was also one of three finalists for the Microsoft worldwide 'Server Platform Partner of the Year' award in 2013 demonstrating the quality of the Company's O-Cloud platform.

Outsourcery is a Microsoft Certified Gold Partner with a total of six competencies of which three are gold and three silver. Outsourcery employs 120 staff based in three UK offices and operates two UK data centres and was the UK's first certified carbon neutral CSP.

http://www.outsourcery.co.uk