Bytemark
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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]
Industry | Internet, cloud computing |
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Founded | 12 July 2002; 22 years ago (2002-07-12) |
Founders | Matthew Bloch Peter Taphouse |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Services | Internet hosting service |
Website | www |
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.