Data centre services:
dedicated to the UK public sector
Simple to buy. Rapid to on-board. Trusted. That’s Crown Hosting Data Centres. We’re here to transform your organisation through data centre hosting with best-in-class risk assurance, flexibility, environmental performance and ability to enable cloud services.
What is Crown Hosting Data Centres?
Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited is a joint venture between the Cabinet Office and Ark Data Centres that delivers increased efficiency, improved value and transparency of data centre hosting utilisation across all of the UK public sector.
Designed to enhance the public experience of IT and accelerate new government services to market, the Crown Hosting Data Centres catalogue of simple-to-buy services substantially reduces the operational risk and overall cost of public sector departments and organisations.
What do we offer?
We offer a rich portfolio of hosted data centre services at OFFICIAL and above levels of assurance, underpinned by a comprehensive set of service-level agreements that exceed industry standards.
Crown Hosting Data Centres services are delivered on a platform already being used at scale by high-profile public sector departments and agencies including the Ministry of Defence and the Ministry of Justice.
With Crown Hosting Data Centres you can buy data centre hosting, data centre connectivity and other services on demand, on a pay-as-you-use basis, gaining access to a suite of flexible, scalable approved secure services.
Who can buy?
Our hosted data centre services are open to any UK publicly funded, mandated, regulated and previously regulated organisations.
A number of government departments and G-Cloud providers are already driving significant carbon and cost savings by leveraging the high security, high resiliency, low latency and reduced operational risk provided by Crown Hosting Data Centres.
How can you buy?
Crown Hosting Data Centres’ high-quality data centre hosting services have already been agreed and are governed as part of a Cabinet Office framework agreement.
This allows you to take advantage of substantial savings by acquiring data centre hosting under your own call-off agreements with Crown Hosting Data Centres. You can commission data centre hosting, inter-data centre connectivity and additional cabling services.
In the process, you benefit from simple, transparent pay-for-what-you-use pricing, no minimum volume commitment and a choice of duration commitments that you can terminable early without charge (subject to notice).
How can you get in touch?
Crown Hosting Data Centres Limited is powered by Ark Data Centres, who design, construct and operate the most efficient UK data centres for the public sector. We pride ourselves on being easy to do business with.
Find out for yourself by getting in touch via the email form below.
If you visit one of the data centres you must follow the procedures outlined to you by your host and book your visit at least 48 hours in advance. We will provide specific directions to you upon confirmation of your visit.