Managed Hosting Expert teams up with The Bunker

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, the Ultra* Secure Managed Hosting provider, is delighted to announce the appointment of Christian Eckley to the position of Director of Managed Services. The Bunker provides Managed Hosting and application services that deliver highly available, highly secure and highly scalable online infrastructure solutions. These services are delivered out of its wholly owned, state of the art Data Centres located in Kent, Berkshire and Suffolk.

Christian comes with six years Managed Hosting experience. He was previously Sales & Marketing Director at Globix where he successfully grew the business and delivered record levels of Managed Hosting sales. Christian joins The Bunker with the aim of leveraging its unique service delivery capabilities that will accelerate its growth plans and establish the organisation as a market-leading provider of Secure Managed Hosting services.

By acquiring ex-MOD nuclear bunkers, The Bunker has been able to create the ultimate environment for business critical online, data or telecoms applications at far lower cost than previously available.

The Bunker has the unique selling proposition of ultra high levels of connectivity, power and security at low cost and outside high-risk urban areas. This combined with the company’s depth of expertise in a range of technologies from Open Source to Microsoft and including Network Management leaves them perfectly positioned to service the growing demand for Ultra Secure, Ultra Scalable and Ultra available managed infrastructure solutions.

Peregrine Newton CEO of The Bunker, said:

“We are delighted Christian is on board. With the combination of our unique positioning, available space and power and Christian’s unrivalled experience in the Managed Services market, I predict a very exciting and fast growth. Christian has joined us at just the right time to really take advantage of the very positive market conditions and our unique facilities and expertise”

Christian commented:

“I am delighted to be joining The Bunker and to be given the opportunity to offer my expertise to what is an already highly experienced Board and Management Team. The Bunker is going through an exciting period of growth and its investment plans will provide a great foundation for continued success.

The Bunker has a compelling service delivery proposition that is combined with an unrivalled opportunity to grow its Data Centre footprint. Online security is a key consideration for organisations and The Bunker is extremely well positioned to capitalise on this market need. I am very much looking forward to working with the team.”

About The Bunker

The Bunker Secure Hosting Ltd, provides Ultra Secure Data Centres and Managed Services on a range of technologies from Open Source to Microsoft and including network Management. Our team comprises of security and cryptography experts renowned for their work on Apache-SSL and Bluesnarfing.

Our technical leaders are recognised experts in security and we use Open Source software where appropriate, as we believe it offers great benefits in security, stability and cost effectiveness. Our Data Centres are outside the M25 yet within easy reach of London.

Our facilities 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. Through our in house networks team and via close working relationships with a number of carefully selected network providers, we deliver a multi-homed, no single point of failure transit network between all our sites and the Internet.

The Bunker works with over 75 clients, large and small. Our clients are Financial Services Organisations, Technology companies, local government and other regulated Businesses that value our Ultra Secure, high availability offering.