Bytemark

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Bytemark Ltd.
Industry Internet, cloud computing
Founded12 July 2002;21 years ago (2002-07-12)
FoundersMatthew Bloch
Peter Taphouse
Headquarters
York, North Yorkshire
,
U.K.
Area served
Worldwide
Services Internet hosting service
Website www.bytemark.co.uk

Bytemark is a UK-based server hosting and datacentre provider, [1] headquartered in York, United Kingdom. [2] It was founded in 2002, [3] and was the first provider[ citation needed ] of virtual machines and cloud hosting through User-mode Linux in 2003. [4]

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In 2012, the company launched BigV, a public cloud platform designed in-house using open source software. [5] In 2013, it moved into a £1.2 million datacentre and headquarters in York. [6] In 2017, their BigV platform was renamed Bytemark Cloud. In September 2018, the company was acquired by iomart Group plc. [7]

On 2 February 2023 Bytemark announced [8] that it would cease to support BigV on 30 April 2023.


Environmental and ethical policies

Bytemark's datacentre uses fresh-air cooling, not common in the UK, [9] and was shortlisted for Innovation in Medium Data Center at the DatacenterDynamics Awards EMEA 2013. [10] Each of its servers is built using efficient power supplies as certified by the 80 Plus scheme, which requires power supplies to be at least 80% efficient at up to 100% rated load.[ citation needed ] To reduce the bias found in traditional recruitment processes, the company developed their own anonymous recruitment process in 2015. [11]

Awards

In 2014, Bytemark was named one of the Top 50 Fastest Grown Tech Companies in the North [12] at the Northern Tech Awards [13] with revenue growth of 44%. Financially, the company turned over £2.5 million in 2013. [14] In 2014, this grew to £3 million. [15] In 2015, the company was awarded the Fair Tax Mark. [16]

Support of open-source projects

Bytemark has a history of contributing to and supporting free software.

They support LibreOffice through provision of a build server. [17] [18] In 2009, the company became a supporter of XBMC with the same. [19] In 2012, they started supporting Cyanogenmod with build servers. [20]

In 2013, the company contributed hosting services worth £150,000 to the Debian project, having used Debian since the company was founded. [21] The company also supported OpenStreetMap with DNS services and servers to support version control, mailing lists and help pages. [22] The company also support projects for social good, including sponsoring servers for mySociety, who operate FixMyStreet, TheyWorkForYou and WhatDoTheyKnow. [23]

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