Thursday 29 July 2010
iomart Hosting, the UK data centre and managed hosting provider, has today launched two of the UK’s first genuine true cloud hosting platforms.
iomart Hosting, one of the few UK data hosting companies to own its entire data centre infrastructure, has developed two platforms which will allow customers to make use of the ‘cloud’ – an on–demand, remote IT infrastructure that enables companies to access and manage scaleable computing resources without the need for capital investment. This allows cloud users increased efficiency, as well as lower costs.
iomart Hosting’s five UK data centres enable it to offer two new Cloud service offerings:
- CloudXtra: allows access to iomart Hosting’s cloud infrastructure on demand, where customers pay only for what they use, when they use it. This option is ideal for test, development and short-term or seasonal high-capacity requirements.
- CloudSure: utilising iomart Hosting’s UK data centre network, CloudSure offers a bespoke and full-customisable cloud service. It enables integration of networking, server, storage, and application infrastructure into a single, virtual cloud-based architecture
Angus MacSween, chief executive of iomart Hosting, said: “The benefits of cloud computing are hugely exciting but as yet are relatively untapped.
”We took a strategic decision to ensure we owned our data centre infrastructure and that strategy continues to prove its worth now with the advent of virtually-hosted cloud based data networks. With our two cloud hosting offerings, we are meeting the needs of two distinct markets. We are catering for both the company that needs to expand its current IT infrastructure on a short-term basis and also, for example, the company that requires high availability for disaster recovery purposes. Many cloud providers offer resilience within one single data centre, with our network we can offer the ‘cloud holy grail’ of multi site redundancy.
“We believe we’re the first in the UK to offer genuine cloud services. The beauty of our infrastructure set up is that we can adapt and develop that service across our data centres to ensure that, regardless of where our customers are, they can benefit from our cloud network.”
He added: “Our cloud hosting solutions are all backed by a genuine 100% business uptime guarantee, are fully supported by our technical teams 24/7, and we have invested heavily in engineering our network to avoid any single point of failure. That’s what we offer with our cloud hosting solutions – peace of mind.”
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About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting is one of the UK’s leading providers of managed hosting services. From a single server through to private cloud networks, iomart specialises in the delivery and management of mission-critical hosting services, enabling customers to reduce the costs, complexity and risks associated with maintaining their own web and online applications.
By physically owning and managing its own network infrastructure, including five state-of-the-art data centres in the UK, it offers world-beating levels of service to its customers. The company offers a unique 100% uptime guarantee. 100% uptime is iomart Hosting’s mantra, the company lives and breathes it, with all hosting services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure.
Services offered include: Managed Hosting, Colocation, Complex Hosting solutions, Content Delivery Networks, IP Transit, Data Centre Services and Cloud Computing (Infrastructure as a Service).
iomart Hosting is an ISO9001 & ISO27001 certified company.
About iomart Hosting cloud services specifications
CloudXtra:
On Demand Computing
Pay As You Go
High Performance
Guaranteed 100% Service Level Agreements
ISO 27001
24 x 7 Support
CloudSure:
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Virtual Private Cloud
Xen Platform
Fully Flexible & Configurable
Dynamic infrastructure on demand
Insurance/Total Peace of Mind
ISO 27001
Guaranteed 100% Service Level Agreements
The expanded services give enterprises the option to outsource the management of mission-critical applications to Host.net without making a capital investment in their own servers, significantly reducing costs by sharing network resources. The new service, available immediately, utilizes existing Fairway Consulting Group infrastructure including best-of-breed virtualization technologies. Key Fairway executives have also joined Host.net, providing virtual computing expertise as well as paving the way for development of new joint services. Fairway has provided compute, storage and desktop virtualization services to the SMB and enterprise markets, including Fortune 500 clients, since 2004.
The demand for cloud computing is exploding because of the economics. We have been planning to expand our services to include virtualization for some time,” said Jeffrey Davis, co-founder and CEO of Host.net. “Acquiring Fairway Consulting Group enables us to ramp up quickly, leverage our 50-city footprint, and offer robust, cost-effective cloud computing capabilities that have been road-tested by some of the country’s most demanding companies. We were already using Host.net’s colocation services. It made sense to join forces,” said Jeffrey Slapp, co-founder, president and chief architect of Fairway Consulting Group and now Vice President of Virtualization Services of Host.net. “Integrating our infrastructures will give customers a single source for colocation, Metro Ethernet, 1Mbps to 10GB Internet access, multinational transport, managed security, managed VoIP, disaster recovery and virtual hosting services.
