Elinia Accepted Onto G-Cloud Initiative

Online, February 21, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Leading UK ICT service provider receives recognition from Government through acceptance onto approved list for IaaS

eLINIA, one of the UK's fastest growing IT infrastructure outsourcing specialists, announced that it has won a place on the approved list for Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), as part of the Government's G-Cloud framework.

Following a rigorous application process, eLINIA joins a select number of specialist cloud suppliers that that have made it onto the Government's £60 million procurement programme for adopting Cloud services. More than 600 specialist Cloud suppliers expressed interest in joining the initiative, the Cabinet Office has revealed, with less than a third making the shortlist.

"It's a great honour and opportunity for eLINIA to be selected for G-Cloud as an approved supplier of Infrastructure as a Service solutions. eLINIA's participation in the procurement programme is both a testament to the strength of its services and the Government's commitment to deploying state-of-the-art IT solutions for the long term" said John Jones, CEO, eLINIA. "eLINIA specialises in supplying secure managed services and we look forward to supporting the Government's plans for investing in secure Cloud infrastructure in a timely and economic fashion".

Representing a change in both the way government works with suppliers and operates internally, G-Cloud covers the processes of buying, managing and using Cloud products.

The Governments new CloudStore Website www.govstore.net is now live and catalogues over 1700 IT products & services that are available for purchase to the public sector.

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eLINIA is a leading provider of Cloud Computing services, secure managed hosting and infrastructure outsourcing, and is one of the fastest growing ICT solutions providers in the UK. eLINIA's innovative customer service structure, combined with the highest level of security and infrastructure management provision commercially available in the UK market, enables it to provide an exceptional level of responsiveness, agility, security and service to its customers.