Bytemark

Bytemark Ltd.
Industry Internet, cloud computing
Founded July 12, 2002 (2002-07-12)
Founders Matthew Bloch
Peter Taphouse
Headquarters York, North Yorkshire, U.K.
Area served
Worldwide
Services Internet hosting service
Website https://bytemark.co.uk

Bytemark is a UK-based server hosting and datacentre provider,[1] headquartered in York, United Kingdom.[2] Founded in 2002 as Bytemark Computer Consulting Ltd,[3] Bytemark was the first provider of virtual machines and cloud hosting through User-Mode Linux in 2003.[4]

In 2012, Bytemark launched BigV[5] their public cloud platform designed completely in-house using open source software. In 2013, Bytemark moved in to their own £1.2 million datacentre and headquarters in York, "YO26".[6] The datacentre uses fresh-air cooling, not common in the UK[7] and was shortlisted for Innovation in Medium Data Center at the DatacenterDynamics Awards EMEA 2013.[8] In 2014, Bytemark was named one of the Top 50 Fastest Grown Tech Companies in the North[9] at the Northern Tech Awards[10] with revenue growth of 44%. Financially, Bytemark turned over £2.5 million in 2013.[11] In 2014, this grew to £3 million.[12] Bytemark has a history of contributing to and support free software. Bytemark offer an ongoing discount to Free software publishers of at least 5%.[13] Bytemark support LibreOffice[14] through provision of a build server.[15] In 2009, Bytemark became a supporter of XBMC[16] with the same. In 2012, Bytemark started supporting Cyanogenmod with build servers.[17] In 2013, Bytemark contributed hosting services worth £150,000 to the Debian project[18] having used Debian since the company was founded. Bytemark also supports OpenStreetMap with DNS services and servers to support version control, mailing lists and help pages.[19] Bytemark also support projects for social good including sponsoring servers for mySociety including FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow.[20]

References

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  8. "The 2013 DatacenterDynamics EMEA Awards finalists are here". PRWeb. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  9. "Bytemark named in top 50 fastest growing tech firms". York Press. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  10. "Northern Tech Awards 2014 » Celebrating northern tech entrepreneurship". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  11. "Bytemark Hosting invests in data centre". York Press. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  12. "Success for York company Bytemark Hosting". York Press. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  13. "Digital conference hailed a success". York Press. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  14. "Our Supporters » The Document Foundation". Archived from the original on 1 September 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  15. https://people.gnome.org/~michael/data/2012-07-29-libreoffice-gnome.pdf
  16. "Welcome Bytemark: Hosting Sponsor - XBMC". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  17. "CyanogenMod asking the help — and collecting means in 8 clocks — IT daily blog, news, magazine, technologies". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  18. "Debian -- News -- A Bytemark donation boosts reliability of Debian's core infrastructure". Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  19. "State of the Map 2013 :: Personalised mugs from Bytemark". Archived from the original on 11 October 2014. Retrieved 12 September 2014.
  20. "Migrating to Bytemark (who rock) / mySociety". mySociety. Retrieved 12 September 2014.

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