New hosting capabilities from Memset boast exceptional levels of data security designed to support the increasing need for flexible server capacity

Today in Sydney, the OpenStack Public Cloud Passport programme was launched, a collaboration between OpenStack public cloud providers from around the globe, and the OpenStack Foundation. It is an initiative offering potential users free trials of OpenStack public clouds, so they can better understand the benefits it offers them, as well as finding the provider that is most suitable.

At a prestigious awards ceremony, held at the Lancaster London Hotel on Friday evening, Bloomsbury Health were awarded ‘IT Provider of the Year’ at the General Practice Awards 2016. Dr Phil Hammond was on hand to present the awards that aim to recognise, highlight and reward the hard work and innovation that is carried out every day in surgeries across the breadth of the UK.

Memset, leading British SME supplier of cloud hosting services, is very proud to have been named as a shortlisted finalist in the 2016 Surrey Super Growth Awards - the ultimate list of high-growth companies in the county. 

British provider of cloud & dedicated hosting solutions, Memset is delighted to announce they won the Best Dedicated Hosting award for the second year running at the 2016 ISPA Awards held in London last night.

Memset, leading British SME supplier of cloud hosting services has been shortlisted for the Best Dedicated Hosting Award at the Internet Services Providers’ Association (ISPA UK) 2016 annual awards - the longest running and most prestigious Internet industry awards in the UK.

Fifty companies have made the shortlist across fifteen categories and the winners will be announced at the gala ceremony on 7 July.

Kate Craig-Wood, MD of Memset, SME supplier of cloud infrastructure to the government, today called for renewed efforts to form a community around open standards when speaking at Think Cloud for Digital Government in London.

Memset, leading British SME supplier of cloud hosting services to the UK public sector & private sector have today announced they have been shortlisted for two categories in the UK IT Industry Awards 2015. 

Memset, an award-winning UK cloud IaaS provider, has today announced the launch of their complementary Docker container service. Addressing the enormous popularity of Docker and the rapid deployment of applications on the open source platform, Memset’s virtual machines will now come with the latest Docker version pre-installed. 

Memset, an award-winning SME provider of hosting services to enterprise and UK public sector via the G-Cloud framework, have today announced that their cloud storage product, Memstore has won Computing’s Enterprise Cloud Storage Award at an award ceremony held last Friday 10th July 2015. 

Memset, leading British SME supplier of cloud hosting services to the UK public sector has today announced that their government accredited data centre facility is now fully live with its connection to PSN-Protected, the highest level of PSN security.

Driven by a desire to bring the best of commodity public cloud prices to higher government security tiers, Memset invested £1.8m constructing a highly efficient, highly scalable IL4-capable data centre in Dunsfold Park, Surrey which was completed in July 2014.

Memset has been nominated as a finalist in the V3 Technology Awards in two categories, Best Cloud Storage and Best Cloud Computing Provider. The finalists were recently announced and voting by the V3 readers has recently closed. 

Memset has today announced it has launched a new business division, Memset Managed Services (MMS) to help the company address the increasing bespoke nature of public sector accounts and to add further value to their award-winning commodity Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) solutions.

Memset have today revealed a smattering of new council contracts as they continue to increase their foothold in local government.

The announcement comes on the eve of the G-Cloud V framework going live where a 13% increase in the number of suppliers is expected. Memset’s continuing success provides these new suppliers with encouragement that the framework is working, especially in light of the head of the Government Digital Service (GDS) saying he believes that most local councils in the UK are unaware of G-Cloud.

News that no government information technology contract should be worth more than £100m according to Cabinet Office is welcomed by SME, Memset who believes the move will help to remove further barriers to public sector cloud computing adoption and encourage a more open marketplace.
 

G-Cloud accredited supplier, Memset has today announced a number of key appointments in pursuit of new Public Sector accounts via the G-Cloud programme.

As a new breed of SME supplying ICT services to the public sector, Memset is keen to attract public sector customers with their flexible and efficient IT solutions as well as flawless service delivery.

Recent outages of Amazon cloud at the end of August mark the third significant outage in two years caused by Elastic Block Store (EBS) failures.  According to Memset, who offer persistent local storage by default, these high profile outages suggests that network-attached block storage is not always a reliable place to store data. 

Memset the award-winning IaaS company has today revealed they will be competing to take home the coveted title of Managed Service Innovation at this years ISPA Awards. Now in their 15th year, the ISPA Awards are the UK's longest running Internet industry awards.

 Award-winning, IL2 accredited IaaS provider, Memset have today revealed that they have been signed up by the Cabinet Office to host the G-Cloud's new CloudStore website.

The new CloudStore website offers greater visibility of suppliers and services and fast availability of new offerings through a refresh of the framework.

Cloud provider, Memset has been recognised at this year's Energy & Environment Awards for their ongoing innovative energy-efficient project to actively and scientifically lower the energy footprint of their services, in particular, examining the efficiency of their Miniserver VM virtual machines. 

Scooping the ‘Innovative Energy-Efficient Project Award’, Memset’s project involved examining the load levels and power consumption of their Miniserver VM® host server estate for 32 months.

The Mayor of Waverley was amongst a number of VIP guests invited to celebrate the launch of Jigsaw+ on Friday, 19th April, a new adult service provision for individuals diagnosed with an autism spectrum disorder or related disability.    

Overseen by the Jigsaw Trust, which also operates the Jigsaw CABAS® School for children on the autism spectrum aged 4-19, Jigsaw+ will provide learning support, vocational activities and wellbeing services for adults through their Centre for Lifelong Learning based on Dunsfold Park.

Following the recent collapse of IT contractor 2e2, Memset is sympathetic to the plight of customers who, through no fault of their own, have been left out in the cold. The fact that 2e2 seems to have leased many of its servers and equipment, rather than owning them outright, has meant that what is left of the company is less than attractive for any potential
buyer.

Memset, an award-winning hosting company with private and public cloud infrastructure, has today rolled out its own API for customers to be able to manage their entire cloud portfolio.

Memset's API enables customers to perform many of the same operations they can currently perform with their web-based control panel, but from their own applications, presenting customers with a new discipline with added security, visibility, integration and scale requirements.

Leading IT entrepreneur, Kate Craig-Wood has today been appointed as one of six new SME CEO's on Intellect UK's Public Sector Council.

Craig-Wood’s appointment comes hot on the heels of her hosting company Memset securing a Framework Agreement for the provision of G-Cloud Services to government, making them one of a new generation of public sector ICT suppliers. 

Guildford, Surrey – 21 March 2012 - At 12.30pm today, Wednesday 21st March 2012, Chancellor George Osborne announced The Budget 2012.  IT entrepreneur, Kate Craig-Wood and co-founder of cloud computing provider, Memset is impressed with some of the Chancellor’s ‘intentions’ but she spells out what exactly the government should put into place to deliver on their promises:

Award-winning cloud computing provider, Memset, have today announced they have launched an apprenticeship scheme due to the ongoing frustration of not being able to recruit the right people with the right skills.

Whilst the government is doing all it can to encourage businesses to take on apprentices to help develop the skills of the British workforce and to promote the growth and rebalancing of the UK economy, Memset’s apprenticeship scheme has been launched for an entirely different reason.

Memset, through their collaboration with Surrey University, have shown that it is possible to reduce power consumption faster than even Moore’s Law.

The research is an ongoing project examining the load levels and power consumption of Memset’s Miniserver VM host server estate which has been running for 32 months. The key findings have been that, contrary to accepted wisdom, CPU is generally under-utilised even after virtualisation and it is RAM and disk transactions which tend to be limiting.

Local community and voluntary charities that help support young people are set to benefit from a new grant fund established by Guildford based technology company, Memset. The ‘Memset Community Fund’ has been launched in partnership with the Community Foundation for Surrey.

Memset have today announced that it will join leaders from across the industry to participate in "World IPv6 Day" on 8th June 2011. The event, which is sponsored by the Internet Society (ISOC), is designed to provide a global "test flight" of IPv6 capabilities bringing together major web providers, network operators, and ISPs to enable end-to-end IPv6 capabilities on major websites for 24 hours.

Female IT entrepreneur, Kate Craig-Wood, was named “Business Personality of the Year” during the annual Toast of Surrey Business Awards ceremony held at Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre on 26th February 2011.

The award, which was presented by Councillor Stephen Mansbridge from Guildford Borough Council, acknowledged Kate Craig-Wood’s personal contribution, made over a period of many years, not only to Surrey but as a female role-model on a national level throughout the IT industry.

Memset, the UK's leading virtual machine cloud provider has today announced the launch of an innovative clustering and vLAN facility for their Miniserver VM® virtual machine service, delivering enterprise-level resilience and security for a fraction of the usual cost.

Guildford, Surrey, United Kingdom – 1 June 2010, Kate Craig-Wood, award-winning entrepreneur of cloud computing provider, Memset, has been appointed to chair Intellect's Climate Change Group. The group is working to highlight and drive forwards the positive role that technology can play in combating climate change and bringing about a truly create a low-carbon future society.

Memset, the UK’s Best Web Host, scooped the prestigious title for another year at last week’s annual PC Pro Awards.  For four- year running, Memset’s customers have continued to vote the web hosts into the winning spot for their exceptional customer support and reliability.

For an industry where reliability is paramount, Memset’s recent award win came days after it

Memset was the only British company to be featured in the top 15 most reliable hosting companies worldwide through an independent survey carried out by Internet analysts, Netcraft.

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Memset, the award-winning dedicated IT hosting company, is delighted to announce that it has been shortlisted as a finalist for two categories in the BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards 2009.

The awards merges the longstanding Computing Awards for Excellence and the BCS IT Industry Awards to create a platform for the entire UK IT profession to showcase and celebrate best practice, innovation and excellence.

Guildford, Surrey 12 March 2008, Memset, the UK's leading provider of Web and IT hosting solutions, has been named as a finalist in the European Green IT Awards, in the Market Leadership - Driving Change in Green IT category.

Memset has been shortlisted for their ongoing commitment to exploring ways that new technologies can be used to not only reduce their environmental impact, but that of their customers as well.

Memset, the award-winning dedicated web hosting company, looks to retain their title as the Best Web Host in the annual PC Pro Service and Reliability Awards.

The awards are the most comprehensive guide to customer support and product reliability in Europe, let alone the UK, compiled from the UK's largest independent survey of IT customer satisfaction.