(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — UK managed hosting provider and data center operator iomart Hosting (www.iomarthosting.com) announced on Tuesday it has launched what it calls “two of the UK’s first genuine true cloud hosting platforms”.
The company has developed two platforms which lets customers beneft from cloud technology This allows cloud users increased efficiency, as well as lower costs.
iomart Hosting offers the two cloud services out of all five of its UK data centers.
The on-demand cloud platform CloudXtra gives customers access to its cloud infrastructure on a pay only for what they use basis.
According to iomart, this pricing model is ideal for test, development and short-term or seasonal high-capacity requirements.
The customizeable cloud platform CloudSure gives customers a fully customizable cloud service.
Users can integrate networking, server, storage, and application infrastructure into a single, virtual cloud-based architecture.
“We took a strategic decision to ensure we owned our data center infrastructure and that strategy continues to prove its worth now with the advent of virtually-hosted cloud based data networks,” says Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart Hosting. “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.
iomart offers a range of services, including managed hosting, colocation, complex hosting solutions, content delivery networks, IP transit, data center services and cloud computing. Earlier this year, the company rebranded to better reflect its focus on hosting.
