UK government now using Huddle's platform for 'Restricted' documents
The move means civil servants can now collaborate on so-called IL3 (RESTRICTED) content and is the first commercial public cloud service in the UK. It’s probably going to save a lot of money too.
The deal is with with FCO Services, which runs the UK government’s secure private network. Interestingly, the FCO Services could have chosen a larger US company to provide the collaboration over documents, but they went with Huddle as its servers are within the UK’s borders.
Alastair Mitchell, Huddle’s co-founder and CEO, says government departments were already using Huddle informally and had asked for a version they could use for confidential documents. Huddle is in talks about providing the platform to the US federal government and security services.
Four-year old Huddle recently moved in the Silicon Roundabout area of London, joining the cluster of other startups in the area which the UK government is promoting as a ‘Tech City’ area.