Hyve Limited (Hyve Managed Hosting)

Fully Managed Microsoft Azure Cloud Services

Worried about Azure billing spinning out of control? Our certified Azure team will optimise your platform and manage your costs.
Need help with planning, migration, scaling or management? Hyve does this all day, every day. Let Hyve take the stress out of your Azure Cloud set up and management.

Features

  • Certified Azure Cloud Solution Provider (CSP)
  • Hybrid Cloud Capable
  • Simplified Active Director (AD)
  • Management of the Evolving Azure product set
  • 24x7 Monitoring
  • Azure Performance Maximisation
  • Full Security and Patch Management
  • Web Application Firewalls
  • Intrusion Detection Systems - Alert Logic
  • Word Press, Umbraco, Kentico, Sitecore, Magento, Shopify, Woo Commerce, Hybris

Benefits

  • UK Based Support team, Priority Calls answered in 20 minutes
  • Simple Price Plans, Know your exact monthly spend
  • Architecture Guidance, Specialist help designing your solution
  • DevOps Professional Services, Reduce deployment issues and rollbacks
  • Application Integration, No developer needed, Code free integrations
  • Setting up of clustering, Use our skills, not expensive consultants
  • Managed relational Database Services, Giving you more time
  • Managed big data Database Services, Freeing up your time
  • DDOS Mitigation, Protecting your systems from attacks
  • IPS, Stopping unauthorised access to your systems

Pricing

£2,500 an instance a month

  • Education pricing available

Service documents

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Framework

G-Cloud 13

Service ID

8 4 3 2 4 6 1 1 8 0 2 7 1 4 1

Contact

Hyve Limited (Hyve Managed Hosting) Daren Vallyon
Telephone: 0800 612 2524
Email: sales@hyve.com

Service scope

Service constraints
Our professional support team is available 24 x 7 x 365 to answer requests. Specialist arrangements must be made with support team for non urgent out of hours maintenance.
System requirements
  • Anti Virus
  • Software licenses for products not supported by Hyve

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Level 1: Critical 20 mins - Highest support priority for when an issue is deemed critical (eg. site down). An engineer will begin trouble shooting immediately. Level 2: Urgent 1 hr - An extremely urgent issue. This will typically be actioned within 1 hour and must be affecting a live site, application, database or mail solution. Level 3: Important 24 hrs - General support level. Used for requests and development advice, such as configuration or administration of services, applications or databases. A majority of priority 3 tickets are answered within the hour (during UK business hours).
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
WCAG 2.1 AAA
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
9 to 5 (UK time), Monday to Friday
Web chat support
Web chat
Web chat support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 AAA
Web chat accessibility testing
All web chat services have been fully tested with assistive technology users
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Hyve provide the following support as standard: hardware management, firewall management, OS management, server monitoring, DNS support, VM backup Hyve offer additional levels of support: web server management, application layer management and database management. performance tuning and access to Hyve development team. We provide customers with a Technical Account Manager and Customer Experience Manager.
Support available to third parties
Yes

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Hyve provide a Technical Account Manager who will work with the customer to get your applications up and running on the Azure Cloud. Full Azure architecture support is available to ensure maximum performance and best practices.
Azure provide a full set of resources to help customers get started. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/ plus comprehensive online documentation for various solutions available across the platform.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
  • HTML
  • ODF
  • PDF
End-of-contract data extraction
Customer are able to remove their data at any time through the same means they uploaded. Either over their network (internet or express route) or via the Azure Import/Export services. Also see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/privacy
End-of-contract process
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/privacy/you-own-your-data. In our Online Services Terms, Microsoft contractually commits to specific processes when a customer leaves a cloud service or the subscription expires. This includes deleting customer data from systems under our control. If you terminate a cloud subscription or it expires (except for free trials), Microsoft will store your customer data in a limited-function account for 90 days (the “retention period”) to give you time to extract the data or renew your subscription. During this period, Microsoft provides multiple notices, so you will be amply forewarned of the upcoming deletion of data. After this 90-day retention period, Microsoft will disable the account and delete the customer data, including any cached or backup copies. For in-scope services, that deletion will occur within 90 days after the end of the retention period. (In-scope services are defined in the Data Processing Terms section of our Online Services Terms.) See http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/Downloader.aspx?DocumentId=11745

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Using the web interface
Manage and deploy services via the Azure Portal. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-gb/
Web interface accessibility standard
WCAG 2.1 AA or EN 301 549
Web interface accessibility testing
See https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/accessibility/
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
Users are able to utilise the Azure API Managament service to create their own API's for the solutions they deploy on to the platform. Additionally we have the Azure Service Management API which provides programmatic access to much of the functionality available through the Management Portal. Available here https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/azure/ee460799.aspx
API automation tools
  • Ansible
  • Chef
  • OpenStack
  • SaltStack
  • Terraform
  • Puppet
  • Other
Other API automation tools
Azure Stack
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • Open API (also known as Swagger)
  • HTML
  • ODF
  • PDF
Command line interface
Yes
Command line interface compatibility
  • Linux or Unix
  • Windows
  • MacOS
Using the command line interface
Azure CLI 2.0 is optimized for managing and administering Azure resources from the command line, and for building automation scripts that work against the Azure Resource Manager. See https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/cli/azure/install-azure-cli

Scaling

Scaling available
Yes
Scaling type
Automatic
Independence of resources
Azure represents a hyper-scale public cloud service. There are no reports of contention or noisy neighbours effect on Microsoft Azure.
Usage notifications
Yes
Usage reporting
  • API
  • Email
  • SMS

Analytics

Infrastructure or application metrics
Yes
Metrics types
  • CPU
  • Disk
  • HTTP request and response status
  • Memory
  • Network
  • Number of active instances
Reporting types
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Full Azure Cloud Solutions Provider (CSP)

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Conforms to BS7858:2019
Government security clearance
Up to Security Clearance (SC)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
United Kingdom
User control over data storage and processing locations
Yes
Datacentre security standards
Complies with a recognised standard (for example CSA CCM version 3.0)
Penetration testing frequency
At least once a year
Penetration testing approach
Another external penetration testing organisation
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Backup and recovery

Backup and recovery
Yes
What’s backed up
  • https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/best-practices-availability-paired-regions
  • https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/global-datacenters
Backup controls
Customers can create a backup schedule and determine a retention period.
Please see https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/azure/backup/backup-azure-vms-first-look
Datacentre setup
Multiple datacentres with disaster recovery
Scheduling backups
Users schedule backups through a web interface
Backup recovery
  • Users can recover backups themselves, for example through a web interface
  • Users contact the support team

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • Private network or public sector network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Bonded fibre optic connections
  • Other
Other protection between networks
For data in transit, Azure uses industry-standard secure transport protocols, such as TLS/SSL, between user devices and Microsoft datacenters. You can enable encryption for traffic between your own virtual machines (VMs) and your users. With Azure Virtual Networks, you can use the industry-standard IPsec protocol to encrypt traffic between your corporate VPN gateway and Azure as well as between the VMs located on your Virtual Networ
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
  • Other
Other protection within supplier network
ACL Based Network Security Groups are also used. See https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/blog/network-security-groups/

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
See Microsoft's Online Service Terms at http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/Downloader.aspx?DocumentId=11745
Approach to resilience
Hyve will work with customers to understand their disaster recovery/resilience requirements, and architect a solution designed to meet the defined recovery time / point objectives.

Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/cloud-platform/global-datacenters and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/
Outage reporting
Please see https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/status/ and https://portal.azure.com/#blade/HubsExtension/ServicesHealthBlade

Identity and authentication

User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google apps)
  • Username or password
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Using the Principle of Least Priviledge (POLP)
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Dedicated link (for example VPN)
  • Username or password
Devices users manage the service through
  • Dedicated device on a segregated network (providers own provision)
  • Dedicated device on a government network (for example PSN)
  • Dedicated device over multiple services or networks

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users have access to real-time audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users receive audit information on a regular basis
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months
How long system logs are stored for
Between 6 months and 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
Yes
Who accredited the ISO/IEC 27001
SNR Certification (UKAS)
ISO/IEC 27001 accreditation date
12/04/2022
What the ISO/IEC 27001 doesn’t cover
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/trustcenter/compliance/iso-iec-27001
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
Yes
CSA STAR accreditation date
11/09/2019
CSA STAR certification level
Level 1: CSA STAR Self-Assessment
What the CSA STAR doesn’t cover
Hyve's full cloud infrastructure is fully covered
PCI certification
Yes
Who accredited the PCI DSS certification
Security Metrics
PCI DSS accreditation date
07/12/2021
What the PCI DSS doesn’t cover
Service Scope is identified here http://aka.ms/azure-pci
Cyber essentials
Yes
Cyber essentials plus
Yes
Other security certifications
Yes
Any other security certifications
  • FACT
  • FedRamp
  • FIPS 140-2
  • ENISA IAF
  • CDSA
  • ISO 27017, 27018
  • SOC 1, 2, 3
  • NHS IG Toolkit
  • Cyber Essentials
  • Cyber Essentials Plus

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
Yes
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
  • CSA CCM version 3.0
  • ISO/IEC 27001
  • Other
Other security governance standards
14 Cloud Security Principles - See https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/14-Cloud-Security-Controls-670292c1 . Also FACT, NHS IG Toolkit, FedRamp, NIST 800-171, EU Model Clauses
Information security policies and processes
An Information Security Management Program has been established to enable Microsoft Azure to maintain and improve its management system for information security. Through establishment of the ISMS, Azure plans for and manages protection of its assets to acceptable security levels based on defined risk management processes. In addition, Azure monitors the ISMS and the effectiveness of controls in maintaining the confidentiality, integrity and availability of assets to continuously improve information security.

The ISMS framework encompasses industry best-practices for information security and privacy. The ISMS has been documented and communicated in a customer-facing Information Security Policy, which can be made available upon request (customers and prospective customers must have a signed NDA or equivalent in place to receive a copy).

Microsoft Azure performs annual ISMS reviews, the results of which are reviewed by management. This involves monitoring ongoing effectiveness and improvement of the ISMS control environment by reviewing security issues, audit results, and monitoring status, and by planning and tracking necessary corrective actions.
Also see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Compliance/ISO-IEC-27001 and The Microsoft Cloud Security Policy is available via the Service Trust Platform aka.ms/stp

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Configuration and change management approach
Azure has developed formal standard operating procedures (SOPs) governing the change management process. These SOPs cover both software development and hardware change and release management, and are consistent with established regulatory guidelines including ISO 27001, SOC 1 / SOC 2, NIST 800-53, and others.

Microsoft also uses Operational Security Assurance (OSA), a framework that incorporates the knowledge gained through a variety of capabilities that are unique to Microsoft including the Microsoft Security Development Lifecycle (SDL), the Microsoft Security Response Center program, and deep awareness of the cybersecurity threat landscape.
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/SDL/OperationalSecurityAssurance and https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/sdl
Vulnerability management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Vulnerability management approach
When providing the Antimalware solution for Virtual Machines, Azure is responsible for ensuring the service is highly available, definitions are updated regularly, that configuration through the Azure Management Portal is effective and that the software detects and protects against known types of malicious software. MCIO-managed hosts in the scope boundary are scanned to validate anti-virus clients are installed and current signature-definition files exist.

Vulnerability scans are performed on a quarterly basis at a minimum. Microsoft Azure contracts with independent assessors to perform penetration testing of the Microsoft Azure boundary.
Protective monitoring type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v3.0 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Protective monitoring approach
Microsoft Azure employs sophisticated software-defined service instrumentation and monitoring that integrates at the component or server level, the datacenter edge, our network backbone, Internet exchange sites, and at the real or simulated user level, providing visibility when a service disruption is occurring and pinpointing its cause.

Proactive monitoring continuously measures the performance of key subsystems of the Microsoft Azure services platform against the established boundaries for acceptable service performance and availability. When a threshold is reached or an irregular event occurs, the monitoring system generates warnings so that operations staff can address the threshold or event.
Incident management type
Conforms to a recognised standard, for example, CSA CCM v3.0 or ISO/IEC 27035:2011 or SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
Incident management approach
Hyve's incident management process follows the laid down procedures in their ISO 27001, ISO 27017 accreditation

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Independent review of processes (for example CESG CPA Build Standard, ISO/IEC 27034, ISO/IEC 27001 or CSA CCM v3.0)

Separation between users

Virtualisation technology used to keep applications and users sharing the same infrastructure apart
Yes
Who implements virtualisation
Supplier
Virtualisation technologies used
Hyper-V
How shared infrastructure is kept separate
Please see https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/TrustCenter/Security/default.aspx

Energy efficiency

Energy-efficient datacentres
Yes
Description of energy efficient datacentres
Hyve's Data Centres, Equinix have won the EU CoC and were instrumental in assisting the EU actually design the code of conduct

Social Value

Fighting climate change

Fighting climate change

In line with Hyve’s long-term sustainable approach to business operations, Hyve endeavors to conduct all operations in a manner which where possible will prevent any harmful environmental effects that result from ongoing business activities, whenever they occur. As a result, Hyve is committed to a program of continuous development to reduce and eradicate impacts on the environment through providing ongoing education and training via awareness schemes aimed at the identification and understanding of their environmental impacts. Additionally, Hyve will encourage and work with customers, business partners and the wider business community, of which Hyve is a part of, to develop practical and sustainable solutions. As part of Hyve’s goal towards continual improvement, Hyve is committed to reducing our environmental impacts and therefore will develop and implement an environmental management system. We aim to achieve this by: Complying with ISO 14001:2015 Continually audit our environmental performance Achieve 100% carbon neutrality Partnering with sustainable third party providers, where possible. Limiting energy use to our business premises Increase re-use and recycling of materials. Preventing pollution by disposing of waste in an environmentally responsible way Where appropriate, taking environmental regulations into practice and meeting all new regulations as soon as is reasonably practicable. Where appropriate, taking environmental factors into account when purchasing products and services.

Pricing

Price
£2,500 an instance a month
Discount for educational organisations
Yes
Free trial available
No

Service documents

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