Education

• Value for money:

  We deliver an average £3 commercial saving* for every £1 spent by our Public Sector customers. Our portfolio of flexible solutions enables you to pay for what you use, all the while benefitting from a highly available environment at a lower cost. We also deliver a predictable cost model via our OJEU approved framework, which allows you to enjoy a no lock-in contract whilst you plan your infrastructure budget.

• Flexibility:

  As we have connectivity to multiple government and commercial networks in place, our platform supports any vendor or service provider. And with our pay-as-you-go contracts, our data hosting solutions can make up a hybrid Cloud strategy that suits your needs. Things change quickly in the education sector; Crown Hosting offers flexible contracts which you can modify or terminate whenever convenient.

• Risk reduction:

  Our dedicated shared environment can provide 99.999% availability on power and 24/7 monitoring of all facilities, all with NCSC assurance and in line with CPNI guidance. This can provide education organisations with the peace of mind that their data is safe, secure, and compliant.

• Future proof:

  By working with many organisations over the years, we already have a lot of fibre infrastructure and diverse routes and suppliers at our data centre campus, meaning that you can connect to any Cloud platform or any other service from our facilities. This lowers your operations cost as you do not need to install new infrastructure into our campus. Instead, you can access the fibre directly from our data centre.

• Ease of use:

  We aim to provide an IT ready platform to better enable organisations’ digital transformation. We have a 24/7 service desk capability and a dedicated onboarding team with predefined SLAs, as well as a Smart Hands solution which offers IT trained, SC cleared technicians for secure physical IT maintenance.

• Cloud appropriate:

  Use Crown Hosting for your legacy and new private platforms in addition to sensitive data. Connect to multiple cloud options and leverage other managed services available on each site.

  We provide the perfect framework for you to connect to multiple Cloud options and leverage other managed services available on each site.

• Sustainability:

  Working towards Carbon Net Zero, your choice of data centre has the potential to either contribute to the problem of climate change or form a meaningful part of the solution. By choosing to transition to a Crown Hosting facility, our Customers typically save 75% on electricity usage* and reduce carbon emissions* by 99.9% on relocated services. Everyone wins, including the planet.

* Source: CCS Annual Report 2020-2021