What is the advantage of private cloud?

Private clouds offer better security than public clouds due to the fact that the data is stored on servers that no other company can access. This greatly enhances the privacy of the data. An IT team manages servers on-site if they are on-premises.

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Virtual Private Cloud

Q: What is private cloud hosting?

The cloud provider hosts a hosted private cloud on site or in a data center. The resources are not shared with any other organization and are managed by the provider. Cloud providers are responsible for updating, upgrading, and maintaining their systems.

Dedicated, secure cloud compute and storage, scaled precisely to your workloads.

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Your own private slice of Stream Cloud.

Dedicated, secure cloud compute and storage scaled precisely to your workloads — the flexibility of cloud with the isolation, performance and UK-based control of a private environment.

Scale on demand

Add compute, memory and storage in minutes as your workloads grow.

UK data sovereignty

Hosted entirely in our resilient UK data centres — your data never leaves the country.

Fully managed

We handle the infrastructure, patching and monitoring so your team can focus on the business.

Ultra-secure data centres

Hosted in secure UK facilities, including former MOD sites and key internet exchange points, with on-site security and resilient power and cooling.

Built-in DDoS protection

Real-time scrubbing across our network removes malicious traffic before it reaches you.

Managed firewall & UTM

A virtualised next-gen firewall for your workloads, plus high-availability Cisco firewalls at the network edge.

Automated cloud back-up

Backed up to two geographically diverse repositories, with full or file-level restore in minutes.

One-click self-service

Our vNebula portal lets you provision, configure and access virtual machines yourself, in a few clicks.

Full HA for virtual servers

Every virtual machine runs across a high-availability host cluster, so a single hardware failure never takes your workload down.

Enterprise-grade underneath

Built for resilience, tuned for performance

No single point of failure

Designed for a 100% SLA against infrastructure failure, with HA clustering across our host infrastructure.

Intelligent storage

Enterprise storage arrays combine solid-state and high-capacity disks with automatic tiering for demanding workloads.

Instant scalability

Increase memory, CPU and storage at the touch of a button as your workloads grow.

SD-WAN ready

Securely connect your corporate network and remote users straight into your private cloud environment.

FAQs

Virtual Private Cloud, answered

What is private cloud hosting?

Private cloud hosting gives your business dedicated infrastructure hosted in our data centres, with resources never shared with any other organisation — we manage the underlying servers so your team doesn't have to.

What's the advantage over public cloud?

Private cloud offers stronger security and privacy, since your data sits on infrastructure no other organisation can access — a key reason regulated and public sector organisations choose it.

What is vNebula?

vNebula is our self-service virtual data centre platform — create, configure and manage virtual machines, networks and firewalls yourself, with full remote console access.

How is my environment backed up?

Your environment is backed up to a minimum of two geographically diverse storage repositories, with schedules tailored to your needs and restore available within minutes.

What compliance standards do you meet?

Our platform is accredited to ISO 27001, ISO 9001, PCI DSS and approved on the government G-Cloud framework.

Why businesses choose Stream

One trusted partner

From connectivity to communications, security and cloud — one team that knows your business.

24/7/365 UK support

Real experts on our own monitored network, on hand whenever you need them.

Carrier-grade & accredited

Built on infrastructure accredited to ISO 9001 and ISO 27001 for peace of mind.

Built on our own network

Every virtual machine connects directly to our carrier-grade core network — not a third-party's — for low-latency performance and full end-to-end support.

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