News: Digirati Joins UK Cloud Alliance

Trusted shortlist of UK-based firms to provide end-to-end cloud services

London, 4th July, 2011 – Digirati today announced it is one of the founding members of a brand new initiative to bring clarity and trust to UK businesses looking to procure cloud services. The UK Cloud Alliance, a collective of UK-based technology firms and service providers aims to guarantee the full transformational benefits of cloud computing. The Alliance will empower and enable UK businesses looking for new ways to answer their biggest challenges. The objective is to provide medium sized UK businesses with a collection of technology choices that can be delivered via Star’s private cloud platform and serviced by local specialists. This initiative brings together the best that cloud computing has to offer but delivered via local infrastructure and by local partners.

The 15 founding members of the UK Cloud Alliance span the breadth of enterprise IT and communications from telephony to security and from hardware migration to virtualization. Digirati and its fellow alliance members support customers by adhering to a strict Code of Conduct that provides transparency and guiding principles to guarantee the customer’s best interests, in addition to Service Level Agreements and any contractual terms. UK businesses now have clarity and confidence in their choice of cloud computing provider.

John Baker, Managing Director of Digirati said, “We were attracted to the UK Cloud Alliance because it has enabled us to leverage the benefits of cloud computing in partnership with a small and local collective of highly skilled technology specialists. By combining our skills to deliver this technology we can serve UK businesses in a more effective and consistent way than is currently available in the UK marketplace and most importantly our clients will not be constrained by previous technology procurements in the future.”

Ricky Hudson, CEO of Star, commented, “We welcome Digirati to the UK Cloud Alliance. Beneath all the hype, cloud computing is very much in demand by a significant and growing proportion of medium sized UK businesses. This is about serving up UK technology to UK businesses because they like being served by local organizations that they can get to know, grow with and trust. Together, Star, Digirati and the rest of the Alliance will bring the innovation and value promised by cloud computing to the most dynamic sector of the UK economy.”

The UK Cloud Alliance is a member of the Cloud Industry Forum.