iomart Group
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| ISIN | 🆔 |
|---|---|
| Industry | cloud computing information technology |
| Founded 📆 | 1998 |
| Founder 👔 | Angus MacSween |
| Headquarters 🏙️ | , , UK |
Area served 🗺️ | |
| Products 📟 | cloud storage Remote backup service web filtering business mail servers |
| Members | |
Number of employees | 360+ |
| 🌐 Website | www |
| 📇 Address | |
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iomart Group is an information technology and cloud computing company that was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Angus MacSween.[1]
The group takes its name from a derivation of the Gaelic word "iomairt" meaning enterprise. iomart offered the first UK consumer broadband connection and was the UK’s first broadband reseller through its Madasafish brand. Headquartered in Glasgow, iomart operated a call centre in Stornoway which today is still operating and owned by Talk Talk. The company was floated on the London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market AIM in 2000.
Today iomart owns and manages data centres in eight locations across the UK. iomart Group operates a number of different brands including Melbourne Server Hosting[2] which serves the SME market, Backup Technology[3] which provides cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as Easyspace, RapidSwitch and Redstation.
iomart employs 360+ staff, two thirds of whom are based at its offices on the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow. Its customer support team numbers over 100 people.
History
iomart was founded in 1998 as an integrated internet and telecommunications company by entrepreneur Angus MacSween. In 1999 it received its first revenue from the launch of its business service in conjunction with Richard Branson's Virginbiz.net.[4]
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![5] In the same year iomart launched the UK's first outsourced large-scale email hosting platform, ThinkMail.[5]
In 2002 the Telco businesses were sold for £2m cash to Centrica and in 2003 the group acquired Web Genie Internet Ltd for £437K.[6]
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 launched Netintelligence Managed Services Platform.
2006 saw the launch of Netintelligence as the world's first security Software as a Service product.[7]
In 2007 the group bought its first four data centres across the UK.
In 2008 iomart sold Ufindus to BT for £20m cash.[6] The following year iomart acquired dedicated server hosting specialist RapidSwitch for £5.5M.
In 2010 Easyspace became involved in London's Elephant Parade to support the conservation work of the Elephant Family. The same year they launched the Racks 4 Acres campaign to raise awareness of the work undertaken by Rainforest Concern.[8]
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 multi-million 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[9] 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.
Corporate social responsibility
Racks 4 Acres
In 2010 iomart launched the Racks 4 Acres campaign to support and raise awareness of the conservation work undertaken by Rainforest Concern.[8] With the "Racks 4 Acres. Powering the Cloud. Preserving the Clouds" campaign, the group sponsored an acre of Ecuadorian cloud rainforest to mitigate the additional megawatts of power that is consumed within their data centres. Ecuador holds second place in the world for its diversity of orchids and amphibians, and at 369, has the highest density of mammal species per metre anywhere.
Save the cloud 365
Continuing its work with environmental charity Rainforest Concern, iomart have recently launched the #Savethecloud365 campaign with partner Microsoft. The campaign promotes how Office 365 can support remote and flexible working and simplify IT business management. As part of the campaign the company will donate £3 to Rainforest Concern for every Office 365 licence sold by iomart. In addition, iomart is also giving forest rangers and researchers Microsoft Surface Pro 3 tablets which will help them work more effectively.
Host Your Kit
Host Your Kit, developed by iomart, provides sports strips to deserving UK youth teams. The campaign, launched in 2012,[10] started with football kits, and so captured the imagination that over 500 youth teams entered the competition. The campaign was expanded to include basketball kits in 2013 and again in 2014 to include rugby and hockey kits.
Elephant Family
The Group has also supported the conservation work of the Elephant Family since 2009, when it became involved in London’s Elephant Parade. The Elephant Family charity has so far raised more than £4 million from its public art projects to help preserve the habitat of the Asian elephant and other endangered species.[11] It spends the money raised on purchasing land to be set aside as natural reserves for the animals. Its first fund-raising public art event was the Elephant Parade in London in 2010 which put 260 beautifully decorated life-sized elephants on display around the UK’s capital city, one of which was designed by the Group. 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
Cloud Storage
Cloud Storage from iomart delivers unlimited secure storage capacity for the enterprise automatically. There is no limit to the size of the files that can be uploaded, with the entire service being fully scalable and flexible, allowing users to scale their usage up or down depending on demand.[12] The group's Cloud Storage service is hosted in their wholly owned network of secure UK data centres.
Cloud Backup
Cloud Backup solutions protect organizations' critical data. Cloud Backup from iomart is based on enterprise grade EMC Avamar and VMAX platforms. The group's Cloud Backup allows for both granular and full backups and restores of critical data, virtual or physical, with the ability to restore either individual files or entire systems. The backup data is encrypted during transit across the network and at rest for added security.[13]
Fibre Connectivity
Without a resilient and secure network, the most advanced web applications, server infrastructures and cloud environments are constantly at risk. The iomart group routes over 20 Gigabits per second of traffic at peak times and has 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.[14] 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.[15]
Awards
2015
- Private Sector Network Project of the Year - Network Computing Awards
2014
- Scottish Corporate Awards AIM Mid-Sized PLC of Year.
- Rittal Data Centre Excellence Award 2014.[16]
- Chief Executive’s Award, City of Manchester Business Awards.
2012–2013
- 2013 FD’s Excellence Awards - Smaller Quoted Company Financial Director of Year
- 2013 Scotland PLC Awards - AIM/Mid-sized Cap of the Year
- International Data Centre & Cloud Awards 2013 – Private Cloud & Infrastructure Service of the Year 2013[17]
- Storage Awards – Archiving & Compliance Product of the Year 2013[18]
- Global Telecom Business Innovation Awards – Fixed Network Infrastructure Innovation 2013
- 2012 Scotland PLC Awards – Scottish plc of the Year[19]
- 2012 Scotland PLC Awards - AIM/Mid-sized Cap of the Year[20]
- Digital Technology Awards – Outstanding Performance in Business Growth
- UK Stock Market Awards – CEO of the Year Angus MacSween – Finalist
- UK Stock Market Awards – Best Technology plc - Finalist
- 20th fastest growing Cloud service provider in the world in annual Talkin’ Cloud Top 100 survey
2010–2011
- CTO of the Year – Bill Strain[21]
- National UK Business Awards - UK SME of the Year Finalist
- Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year 2011
- 10th in World’s Top 100 Global Managed Service Providers[22]
- UK Computing Security Awards - Security Project of the Year 2010
- Deals & Deal Makers Award – Sale of the Year
- BCS/UK IT Industry Awards - Best Environmental Project of the Year 2010 Finalist
- Entrepreneur of the Year – Angus MacSween Finalist
2008–2009
- UK Data Centre Operator of the Year 2009[23]
- IT Blog of the Year – Finalist
- 2009 PC Pro Environmental Innovator of the Year Finalist
- European SC Awards - Best SME Security Solution Finalist
- Network Computing – Managed Service Provider of the Year
- Network Computing - New Product of the Year Finalist
2006–2007
- British Computing Society Medal – Best Business to Business Project
- European SC Awards - Best Security Management Service
- BCS Information Management Awards - Best business-to-consumer (B2C) Service
- 2006 Global Excellence in End Point Security Award[24]
2004–2005
- Best Software Product – Commendation
- ISPA Award - Best Application
- CNET Networks UK Technology Awards – Security Product of the Year
- Glenfiddich® Spirit of Scotland Award for Business – Angus MacSween CEO
References
- ↑ Williams-Grutt, Oscar (1 October 2013). "Tech entrepreneur Angus MacSween nets millions with iomart stake sale". London Evening Standard. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ↑ Keighron-Foster, Daniel. "iomart Group acquires hosting company Melbourne". www.manchestereveningnews.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ↑ Glenday, John. "Iomart Group purchases Backup Technology in £23m deal". www.thedrum.com. Retrieved 2 July 2014.
- ↑ Fitzgerald, Neil. "Trailblazers in their Sphere". www.HeraldScotland.com. Herald Scotland. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 "By Jings! Iomart launch an ISP for new Scotland". www.scotsman.com. The Scotsman. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Company Overview of Web Genie Internet Ltd". bloomberg.com. Bloomberg. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ↑ Smith, Mark. "Iomart sees solid rise on back of net security product". www.heraldscotland.com. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 "iomart Hosting Launches Racks 4 Acres Campaign to Support Rainforest Preservation". www.scotlandis.com. ScotlandIS. Archived from the original on 13 December 2010. Retrieved 3 July 2014.
- ↑ "iomart buys ServerSpace". Business Cloud News. Business Cloud News. Archived from the original on 2 April 2015. Retrieved 26 March 2015.
- ↑ "iomart Hosting Celebrates Start of Olympics by Announcing Host Your Kit winners". findcloudhost.com.
- ↑ "Shows". STV Shows.
- ↑ "iomart Cloud Storage Service". govstore.service.gov.uk. Crown Copyright. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "Vendor:iomart". ultimabusiness.com. Ultima Business Solutions. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "iomartcloud and Paragon Development Systems (PDS) to Deliver Backup to the Cloud Services Based on VMware vSphere Data Protection™ 5.5 Advanced". vmware.com. vmware. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "iomart email filtering". govstore. Crown Copyright. Retrieved 11 August 2014.
- ↑ "iomart Wins Data Centre Excellence Award from Rittal". PR Web. PR Web. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ http://www.veooz.com/news/uJycJ.html
- ↑ "iomart Group wins International Datacentre & Cloud Award". www.benzinga.com. Benzinga. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ dailyrecord Administrator (18 April 2012). "SCOTLAND PLC AWARD WINNERS: Well-earned plaudits for the pick of the plc bunch". dailyrecord.
- ↑ "PLC Awards Previous Winners". 7 Days Scotland. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "iomart Group CTO Bill Strain Named IT Leader of the Year - HostingCage.com". hostingcage.com.
- ↑ "Top 501 Managed Services Providers List (Ranked 1 to 20)". MSP Mentor. MSP Mentor. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "iomart Hosting Named Data Centre Operator of the Year". Market Wired. Market Wired. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
- ↑ "Info Security Products Guide Names Netintelligence Enterprise Manager Winner Of The 2006 Global Excellence In End Point Security Award". www.eworldwire.com. E World Wire. Retrieved 4 July 2014.
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