Iomart

History

iomart was founded in 1998 as an integrated internet and telecommunications company by former Scottish Telecom senior executives Angus MacSween and Bill Dobbie. In 1999 the company received its first revenue from the launch of its business service in conjunction with Richard Branson's Virginbiz.net.

In 2000 iomart Group incorporated and floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market AIM. Through its Madasafish brand iomart offered the first UK consumer broadband connection. It also launched Scottish consumer Internet Service Provider, Jings! In the same year iomart launched the UK's first outsourced large-scale email hosting platform, ThinkMail.

In 2002 the Telco businesses were sold for £2 million to Centrica and in 2003 the group acquired Web Genie Internet Ltd for £437 thousand.

In 2004 iomart bought web hosting brand easyspace for £12m as well as hosting and domain company Internetters for £250k. In 2005 it launched the UK business directory Ufindus and launches Netintelligence Managed Services Platform.

2006 saw the launch of Netintelligence as the worlds first security Software as a Service product.

In 2007 the group bought its first four data centres across the UK.

In 2008 iomart sold Ufindus to BT for £20m. The following year iomart acquired dedicated server hosting specialist RapidSwitch for £5.5m.

In 2011 iomart were awarded First UK Kite Mark for Online Child Safety. The company also acquired Titan Internet for £4.2m, Switch Media for £1.25m, Global Gold for £1.2m, and EQSN for £2.5m.

In Autumn 2012 iomart Group made a multimillion-pound investment in creating its own resilient dedicated fibre network to connect its data centres. The group also went on to acquire Melbourne Server Hosting for £7m and launched Host Your Kit youth football campaign.

In 2013 the company made two more acquisitions, Redstation for £8m and Backup Technology for £23m.

In 2014 the company expanded further with new data centre and infrastructure operations on the east and west coasts of the US plus a £multi-million extension of their existing Maidenhead data centre. At the end of 2014 the company made an announcement that they had acquired rival cloud service provider ServerSpace to further expand the group.

In 2015 the company made two more acquisitions, the Cloud Consultany; SystemsUp for a deal worth around £13m and United Hosting in December, in a deal worth up to £11m.

In 2015, iomart were also voted the Best Cloud Service Provider of 2015, by HostReview (http://www.hostreview.com/awards/2015/cloud-service#ixzz3yWWLTOhm)

Promotional campaigns

In 2010 iomart launched the "Racks 4 Acres. Powering the Cloud. Preserving the Clouds" campaign. Working with environmental charity Rainforest Concern, the group sponsored an acre of Ecuadorian cloud rainforest to mitigate the additional megawatts of power that is consumed within their data centres. Following this, iomart launched the "#Savethecloud365" campaign with their partner Microsoft. iomart pledged to donate £3 to Rainforest Concern for every Office 365 licence they sold during 2015. In addition, iomart is also giving tablets to forest rangers working for Rainforest Concern in the Cloud Forest in Ecuador. "Host Your Kit" is a scheme for UK youth teams to have sports strips provided by iomart. In 2012, over 500 youth football teams entered the competition. The campaign was expanded to include basketball kits in 2013 and again in 2014 to include rugby and hockey kits. The Group has also supported the conservation work of the Elephant Family since 2009, when it became involved in London’s Elephant Parade. iomart are also involved in Edinburgh’s Jungle City where they enlisted the help of Balfron Art to help them design and produce a hornbill.

Products and services

iomart offers Cloud Storage. The groups Cloud Storage service are hosted in their wholly owned network of secure UK data centres. iomart offers Cloud Backup services, based on enterprise grade EMC Avamar and VMAX platforms. The iomart group route over 20 Gigabits per second of traffic at peak times and have over 100 Gbit/s of internet capacity available at any time..

Hosted Desktop

iomart were the first UK cloud service provider to deliver their VDI platform using VMware Views leading technology which allows them to integrate and deliver an enterprise Windows 7 desktop experience with Microsoft Office 2010® for collaborative working. Their customers can choose between a private, hybrid or managed cloud platform solution to host their virtual desktops.

Physical servers

iomart's cloud servers platform, CloudSure, is a fully resilient platform architecture built with blue chip hardware and software managed 24x7 by their onsite technicians.

Cloud email

iomart offer a complete email service including mailboxes, archiving and storage as well as a full set of email and collaborative features. Email filtering from iomart is a solution that combines threat protection from SPAM, viruses and inappropriate content into a unified email security solution. It can be fully managed from a simple web-accessed Control Panel. Email filtering is a cloud based service which protects end users and networks prior to mail reaching it, with all mail checked for spam, viruses and inappropriate content before delivering clean mail to the end users inbox.

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