OpenStack
Government Cloud
The Next Generation Of Government Cloud
Powered by OpenStack, Memset’s Government Community Cloud is a rapidly deployable, elastically scalable, highly secured, open source IaaS solution built especially for UK public sector. Built to power everything you need from intricate, rapidly changing workloads, to scale-sensitive deployments such as development systems or large-scale web applications, delivered with the added assurance of the Government Community Cloud.
Pay-Per-Use
Turn capital expense into operational expense. Deploy secure, elastically scalable and high performance VMs on a pay-per-use basis.
Quick Deployment
Create complex multi-tier architectures in the Horizon dashboard or orchestrate your deployment via Heat Templates and watch dynamically flexible virtual solutions spin up in seconds, not hours.
100% Open Source
Powered by OpenStack and Ceph. Helping you transition to an open and transparent cloud platform.
Avoid Vendor Lock-In
Pure OpenStack open API support, providing portability of your apps and data among cloud providers to avoid vendor lock in.
Memset’s Government Community Cloud Pricing Plans
We offer the best value public cloud of any UK operator. Our prices are completely transparent and outlined for you below. Billed by the hour with no contracts or hidden costs.
| Official Over Internet | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCPU | RAM (GB) |
Ephemeral Storage (GB) |
Per hour Linux |
Per hour Windows* |
| 1 | 1 | 50 | £0.030 | £0.038 |
| 2 | 2 | 50 | £0.060 | £0.075 |
| 2 | 4 | 50 | £0.120 | £0.150 |
| 4 | 8 | 50 | £0.240 | £0.300 |
| 4 | 15 | 50 | £0.450 | £0.563 |
| 8 | 30 | 50 | £0.900 | £1.125 |
| 12 | 60 | 50 | £1.800 | £2.250 |
| 16 | 120 | 50 | £3.600 | £4.500 |
*Windows Instances Coming Soon
IPv4 addresses available for £2.00 per month
Add to basket| Official Over PSN* OpenStack Cloud - available Q2 2016 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| vCPU | RAM (GB) |
Ephemeral Storage (GB) |
Per hour Linux |
Per hour Windows |
| 1 | 1 | 50 | £0.045 | £0.056 |
| 2 | 2 | 50 | £0.090 | £0.113 |
| 2 | 4 | 50 | £0.180 | £0.225 |
| 4 | 8 | 50 | £0.360 | £0.450 |
| 4 | 15 | 50 | £0.675 | £0.844 |
| 8 | 30 | 50 | £1.350 | £1.688 |
| 12 | 60 | 50 | £2.700 | £3.375 |
| 16 | 120 | 50 | £5.400 | £6.750 |
PSN* and Internet-connected OpenStack Clouds connected by Memset’s revolutionary Protocol Break Bridge, bringing IaaS agility and flexibility to complex multi-network government solutions.
Add me to the waiting listEvery plan includes
Ephemeral Storage
50GB of Ephemeral disk included
Need More Storage?
Persistent storage is 10p/GiB-Month
No Contracts
No hidden costs, plans billed by the hour
The Most Flexible Cloud Hosting For Government
Memset’s OpenStack Community Cloud, available on G-Cloud is designed especially for government to give you the flexibility and true open source cloud computing solutions you need in line with UK digital strategy transformation.
Simple Web-Based Dashboard
Interact with your OpenStack Cloud via the control panel, or using any of OpenStack's open APIs.
Developer Flexibility
Automate deployments with OpenStack Heat and integration with SCM and automation infrastructure such as Puppet, Chef and Ansible and web-hosted tools such as ManageIQ.
High Scalability
Scale both vertically and horizontally by creating servers with additional resources (memory, vCPU, disk volume, etc) or spin up additional servers to handle similar or different infrastructure workloads.
The Best Open Source Cloud for Government
Supported by a Ceph-based storage platform with the latest generation flash technology. Maximise the flexibility, elasticity and cost-effectiveness of your storage whilst maintaining high IOPS and responsive servers.
Secured Architecture For Government
Memset’s OpenStack environments have been architected from the ground up to maximise security and stability. Strong encryption, segregation and security monitoring controls and a comprehensive approach to vulnerability management are in place throughout the shared infrastructure, validated by expert third party advisors and penetration testers. Customers can rely on our industry leading foundations to build their own highly secure environments.
Memset OpenStack, subject to the same stringent security controls and compliance requirements as our highest security government services. A highly segregated internal architecture, rigorously tested by world-class CHECK teams and administered by BPSS and SC cleared UK staff.
All OpenStack projects are supplied with an account-level instance of the Memset self-managed firewall product providing additional coarse-grained security for VMs and virtual networks. Particularly useful in the initial stages of set-up where security controls are in the process of being configured.
Backed By UK-Based Expert Support
Memset’s UK-based technical support team are here to help. Our Infrastructure-Assisted Support should give you all the support you need. In addition, our documentation section is full of helpful articles.
Why Memset?
British Hosting
We’re 100% UK-owned and UK-operated. Memset’s OpenStack Community Cloud, available on G-Cloud 7 backed by UK-only high security data centres and BPSS/SC vetted operations staff and the reliability, security and cost-sensitivity of the Memset brand.
Multi-Cloud Vendor
We’ll work alongside your other cloud vendors to provide best of breed solutions for your cloud ecosystem.
Simplify Data Sovereignty
Keep your data within the same legal jurisdiction to simplify complex data sovereignty issues and concerns. Memset OpenStack is wholly UK hosted and administered.
Transparent Pricing
Our OpenStack prices are comparable to the big global players. Rapid, low-cost provisioning providing you with complete flexibility with no hidden costs.
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