Six Degrees Group

Six Degrees Group is a UK-based managed services, colocation, private cloud, connectivity, and cyber security provider headquartered in London. The business was formed in 2011 and positions itself as a secure integrated cloud services provider focused on helping UK organisations run resilient hybrid infrastructure through colocation, UK private cloud, managed networking, security, and modern work services. Six Degrees is privately held and backed by Charlesbank Capital Partners; its current public positioning emphasizes UK sovereign private cloud, owned-and-operated core network services, and colocation delivered from UK data centre facilities, alongside a broad cyber security and managed services portfolio.

⚙️ Facility Highlights

Data Center Footprint:

1. Six Degrees’ current colocation marketing is centered on facilities in London and Birmingham, and its live “Data Centre Locations” material identifies three comparison entries: Birmingham Central, Studley, and London (Interxion LON3).
2. Elsewhere on its current site, Six Degrees states that its colocation is hosted in three UK data centres, which aligns with the three-site comparison table rather than a two-site-only footprint.
3. The company positions these facilities as part of a broader UK sovereign infrastructure stack that supports private cloud, connectivity, and colocation requirements for UK organisations.

Facility Design & Infrastructure:

1. Six Degrees describes its colocation environments as highly efficient, purpose-built, and operated with its own remote hands teams, with 24x7x365 service, resilient power, and resilient air conditioning.
2. Publicly available facility details list Birmingham Central as a single-storey 5,800 m2 purpose-built facility constructed in 2015 with two data halls of 1,000 m2 technical white space each, while Studley is described as a two-storey 1,700 m2 purpose-built facility constructed in 2008 with three data halls totaling 930 m2 of technical white space.
3. Six Degrees markets its colocation around multiple layers of redundancy, and its live colocation page states 100% SLAs on power and cooling plus 99.999% uptime.
4. The company also highlights purpose-built physical security, routinely tested controls and procedures, and facility-level certifications and attestations that include ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and UTI Tier III aligned positioning across the compared data centre entries.

Service Portfolio Overview:

1. Colocation services with rack, power commitment, engineering migration support, and remote hands / intelligent hands.
2. Private cloud offerings including Enterprise Cloud and Public Sector Private Cloud, both positioned as UK-hosted IaaS platforms for traditional workloads.
3. Cloud backup and DRaaS capabilities are included in the company’s Cloud Platform & Data portfolio.
4. Connectivity services including Direct Internet Access, Managed WAN, SD-WAN Hybrid Networking, Cloud Hop, Managed SASE, and Managed Network Device.
5. Cyber security services including advisory, consultancy, managed cyber, penetration testing, and the CNS security practice.
6. Modern work and cloud collaboration capabilities as part of its wider integrated managed services platform.

🔐 Security & Compliance

Infrastructure Resilience:

1. Six Degrees’ live colocation page states 100% SLAs on power and cooling and describes multiple layers of redundancy ensuring 99.999% uptime.
2. Its current Birmingham data centre event and walkthrough material describe the Birmingham Central facility as Uptime Institute Tier III design certified / Tier III in public-facing marketing.
3. Its private cloud marketing also emphasizes that its private cloud platforms are fully owned and operated in UK data centres by Six Degrees, with UK-based, SC-cleared engineers.

Physical & Logical Security:

1. Six Degrees states that its colocation facilities are purpose-built with security at the forefront of their designs, and that controls and procedures are routinely tested against recognized standards.
2. Its security portfolio includes managed cyber, penetration testing, certification support, and compliance-related services, showing a broader logical-security capability beyond physical hosting.

Compliance & Standards:

1. Six Degrees publicly associates its data centre environments with ISO 27001, ISO 22301, ISO 14001, ISO 9001, SOC 2, PCI DSS, and OFFICIAL (IL2/IL3) positioning in current facility comparison materials.
2. The company also markets framework and certification support around ISO 27001 and PCI DSS, reinforcing that compliance is a core part of its customer-facing proposition.

🌐 Connectivity & Carrier Access

Carrier Neutrality:

1. Six Degrees’ current colocation page states its data centres offer on-net connectivity options available from numerous carriers and providers.
2. Its facility comparison material references diverse entry points served by a choice of fibre providers, access to multiple telecommunications providers including BT, Virgin Media, and Neos Networks, dedicated meet-me rooms/areas, and, for the London entry, 195+ network carriers including LINX and LONAP.

Network Capabilities:

1. Six Degrees operates an owned and operated core Next Generation Network (NGN) and delivers connectivity as part of its Core platform.
2. It offers Direct Internet Access, which it describes as fully managed and monitored 24x7, delivered over the Six Degrees NGN.
3. It offers Managed WAN, explicitly described as an MPLS mesh that connects customer sites to data centres and can be combined with DIA and SD-WAN.
4. It offers SD-WAN Hybrid Networking, Managed SASE, and Cloud Hop, with Cloud Hop providing dedicated connectivity to Microsoft Azure and AWS via Interxion-based cloud exchange access.
5. The facility comparison material also references cross connects and Digital Realty Metro Connectivity.

Connectivity Use Cases:

1. Enterprises colocating workloads while using multiple carrier options, meet-me facilities, and Six Degrees’ own NGN for resilient private and internet connectivity.
2. Organisations adopting hybrid cloud strategies that require UK private cloud combined with private connectivity into Azure and AWS.
3. Public sector and high-compliance users needing UK-onshore infrastructure, strong certification coverage, and secure managed network services.

💼 Who It Serves

1. UK organisations seeking secure integrated cloud services.
2. Public sector and other high-compliance organisations needing UK-onshore or UK sovereign infrastructure.
3. Enterprises running traditional workloads that are not yet ready for public cloud and need private cloud or colocation.
4. Organisations needing bundled colocation, private cloud, connectivity, security, and managed services from one provider.