History
The Bunker provides ultra* secure, ultra-available managed hosted and data centre solutions that ensure business continuity for the widest possible range of enterprises – from UK financial services giants such as Scottish Widows to fast-growing technology SME’s such as ISB Ltd.
Our unique solutions are built from the ground up with leading-edge open source technologies, housed in armoured, military-grade hosting facilities and maintained by the world’s leading security-management team.
We’ve been delivering robust, ultra* secure managed hosted solutions for more than 10 years. During this time we have developed our own unique security model, known as The Bunker Ultra* secure Shield. It protects your business from every eventuality: from the combined physical, human and digital factors that can compromise the availability of your business-critical applications.
The Bunker, as we know it today, was formed in 2004, when successful entrepreneurs and businessmen Jean-Loup Brousse de Gersigny, Steven Joseph and Peregrine Newton acquired the business and assets of ALD Ltd.
ALD was founded in 1993 and provided highly secure, robust, web-based applications, based on open source technologies. Its assets included the freeholds of two nuclear bunkers in Kent and Suffolk, which were to become crucial components in The Bunker’s unique Security Shield DNA. In 2004, The Bunker acquired a 15-year lease on the Newbury facility, The Bunker’s secondary data centre.
Today, The Bunker owns the freehold of two of its data centres and, since 2004, has more than quadrupled revenues and trebled its customer base. In 2006 institutional investors Foresight Venture Partners supported The Bunker and joined the board, laying the foundations for even faster growth.
The Bunker continues to enjoy rapid growth and continues to invest in its people, in training and development, in process management techniques and in improving its core infrastructure and systems.
