Outsourcery targets Government work with high security service

CLOUD computing firm Outsourcery said its involvement with a high security service run by Microsoft is a “very significant” development that will add revenue by late 2015.

The firm, which is based in Manchester, is already a Government supplier and believes its involvement with the service, known as IL3, will attract more contracts.

It said: “The government’s annual hosting cost is estimated to be worth £2bn and the opportunity for new IL3 based services to address that market and deliver savings is substantial.”

Co-chief executive Piers Linney said: “The deployment of an IL3 compliant version of our O-Cloud platform, powered by Microsoft, is a very significant development for Outsourcery and we expect it to represent a material revenue stream by the end of 2015, in addition to our existing commercial sector business.

“We will provide the UK government, as well as security sensitive commercial sector organisations, the broadest offering of IL3 compliant and fully integrated cloud-based services available in the UK that will span platform, applications, unified communications and big data storage and analytics.”