The Bunker is chosen as Data Centre of choice by Cimar (UK) Limited
26th November 2009
The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, provider of Ultra* Secure Data Centres and Managed Services is pleased to announce Cimar (UK) Limited has selected The Bunker as its hosting partner to provide managed ultra secure hosting of its radiology image sharing web service.
Cimar was established to bring advancements in compression and encryption technology to the radiology and healthcare markets. Its business is at the forefront of clinical data optimisation and is growing fast as it paves the way for seamless data transmission in the radiology fraternity.
Cimar’s cutting edge lossless compression and encryption technology allows fast and seamless transmission of diagnostic quality medical imagery such as MRI radiology between hospitals and physicians anywhere. This patented technology, ABOve2000TM, breaks new ground in efficiency, speed and ratios of compression, while ensuring perfect diagnostic quality is retained in transmitted images. The widespread clinical demand for lossless compression and image sharing has led Cimar to source services from a market leader in security and customer satisfaction. The Bunker has been appointed to provide a scalable solution to Cimar’s hospital and healthcare trust clients as demand for its transmission technology and service grows.
The Bunker provided Cimar with a managed solution built on Microsoft technology, ideal for running Cimar’s web applications on its clients’ servers. The Bunker understood Cimar’s requirements for a scalable platform that allowed them to provide their service across the NHS and Private Healthcare sectors.
Cimar clients include; Hertfordshire and Oxfordshire PCTs, Great Ormond Street, The Royal Marsden (and other NHS Trusts), private radiology reporting companies, and private hospital groups. The Bunker’s unique solution will facilitate a seamless roll out among Cimar’s clients thanks to this optimally tuned and easily deployable turnkey solution. The Bunker’s position as market leaders guarantees Cimar’s technology runs in a robust, approved environment with dedicated support.
Howard Jenkinson, Managing Director of Cimar (UK) Limited comments, “Absolute information security is a pre-requisite for any digital service carrying sensitive patient information. This is why we selected The Bunker as our lead hosting partner. We need a partner who intuitively understands our business needs, those of our clients and provides uncompromising security at all times. The Bunker has been NHS approved to run our service, and provides the absolute security our client’s demand, whilst providing excellent proactive support. Equally important is knowing that we have a partner organisation able to support robust expansion of our service across the whole of the NHS and internationally. In addition to our numerous NHS and UK clients, we are currently connecting hospitals across the UK, Spain, Pakistan, India and beyond to our Bunker hosted servers.”
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About The Bunker
The Bunker delivers secure managed hosting and data centre solutions from within Europe’s most secure data centre.
Our Data Centres, which are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London, are ex-military Nuclear Bunkers purpose built to house the UK’s air defence systems. We run 24/7/365 and our NOC monitors systems both nationally and internationally and is staffed around the clock by system and network engineers and security staff.
The Bunker team includes recognised experts in security and cryptography renowned for their work on Apache-SSL. The Bunker is ISO 27001 and PCI DSS accredited. We are also a Microsoft Gold Partner. We use Open Source software where appropriate as we believe it can offer great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between our sites and the Internet.
The Bunker works with over 150 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated businesses that value a premium service built around security.
Our service is proactive, high quality, sometimes innovative, but always practical, responsive and secure. We never forget the enormous trust our clients vest in us. As an organisation we understand that our success relies upon our reputation and our reputation is earned by continuing to fulfil this trust and afford peace of mind.
The Bunker Protocol™
All Bunker-based applications are protected by The Bunker Protocol™, our proprietary, Ultra* Secure process framework that includes:
- Military-Grade Data Centres – in our underground bunker outside the M25 in Kent and our mirror facility in Newbury, both protected by integrated processes for physical, digital and human security
- Hardened Source™ – Our unique combination of open source and proprietary technologies built and integrated in-house from the source code up
- Tierless Support™ – no ‘first tier helpdesk’; tierless support – direct 24/7 access to qualified hands-on support teams
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