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iomart Hosting Takes UK Digital Media Agency Into the Cloud
LONDON, February 28, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform
iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform
[http://www.iomarthosting.com/cloud-hosting ] to support the work of UK digital media
agency New Brand Vision Group.
For the first nine years of its life New Brand Vision [http://www.newbrandvision.com ]
relied on a physical IT infrastructure but last year it decided that the flexibility
afforded by cloud hosting was now needed in order to continue to deliver successful
campaigns for its clients.
"It's really important for us as a digital agency to be thinking ahead about the
latest trends and tactics," explains founder and managing director Ben Harris. "We felt
this approach needed to be extended to our hosting as well. We knew the cloud was becoming
more popular and after doing some research we realised it could be of huge benefit both to
our customers and our own business."
New Brand Vision wanted high availability so iomart Hosting's technical team
recommended that for greater resilience and uptime it should migrate to a VMware Cloud
[http://www.iomarthosting.com/managed-hosting/managed-vmware ]. The migration process was
managed to ensure minimal impact on New Brand Vision's customers.
"iomart Hosting worked really closely with us and most importantly, listened to us in
order to produce the right solution," says Ben. "Now we have a very reactive platform
which benefits both us and our clients [http://www.newbrandvision.com/Portfolio ]."
Every new client the agency takes on is provided with a new virtual machine which
iomart Hosting deploys for them using a VM template which is then customised to sit behind
a fully managed dedicated firewall.
Ben Harrisbelieves that the IT infrastructure that iomart Hosting has provisioned for
New Brand Vision gives the agency a great framework on which to plan its clients'
campaigns.
"Many of the PR and marketing campaigns that we do for clients can result in
substantial increases in traffic on their websites so we have to be ready," he says. "For
a small campaign we can assign virtual resource very quickly, while for larger campaigns
that need load-balanced servers, it's much quicker but also much cheaper to roll them
out."
Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, says: "The ultimate benefits of
having virtual servers on a cloud platform is that an agency like New Brand Vision gets
much more control over assigning resources for campaigns. It can plan better and respond
better."
Ben Harris agrees: "The platform we have with iomart Hosting has high availability.
It's fully virtualised and so gives us better control, while mitigating risk and saving
money for our clients."
New Brand Vision Group is based in Silicon Roundabout, the London hub for
entrepreneurial tech companies. It delivers websites to UK and global businesses across
media, finance, and services sectors.
iomart Hosting is part of iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM).
Notes for editors:
About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting is one of the UK's leading providers of complex managed hosting and
cloud computing services to the enterprise market. It owns and manages its own network
infrastructure, including five UK data centres, offering a unique 100% uptime guarantee.
Services include: Private and Hybrid Cloud, Colocation, Content Delivery Networks, IP
Transit, Cloud Storage and Email.
Clients include: office2office, Misys, Cimex, BT plc, Stagecoach, Skyscanner, SoftCat,
Learndirect, London School of Economics, Newsquest , Shine TV and STV.
iomart Hosting is an ISO9001 & ISO27001 certified company. The company is fully
accredited at Gold Partner level with VMware, Oracle and Microsoft. It is part of AIM
listed iomart Group plc.
About iomart Group plc
iomart Group is one of the UK's leading providers of managed hosting and cloud
computing 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 global network infrastructure, iomart offers
world-beating levels of service to its customers. The Group offers a unique 100% uptime
guarantee with all hosting services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure.
iomart Group operates in its chosen markets through a number of subsidiaries: iomart
Hosting, RapidSwitch, Easyspace, EQSN and Westcoastcloud. The group has been listed on the
London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) since April 2000. For more
information about iomart Group plc visit http://www.iomart.com
News release issued on behalf of iomart Hosting by Jane Robertson, Head of PR for
iomart Group plc. For more information please email jane.robertson@iomart.com or call
+44(0)141-931-6474 (dir), +44(0)141-931-6400 or +44(0)7827948993 (mob).
Source: iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting Takes UK Digital Media Agency Into the Cloud
LONDON, February 28, 2012/PRNewswire/ --
New Brand Vision Group migrates to highly available virtual platform
iomart Hosting has delivered a highly available cloud platform
[http://www.iomarthosting.com/cloud-hosting ] to support the work of UK digital media
agency New Brand Vision Group.
For the first nine years of its life New Brand Vision [http://www.newbrandvision.com ]
relied on a physical IT infrastructure but last year it decided that the flexibility
afforded by cloud hosting was now needed in order to continue to deliver successful
campaigns for its clients.
"It's really important for us as a digital agency to be thinking ahead about the
latest trends and tactics," explains founder and managing director Ben Harris. "We felt
this approach needed to be extended to our hosting as well. We knew the cloud was becoming
more popular and after doing some research we realised it could be of huge benefit both to
our customers and our own business."
New Brand Vision wanted high availability so iomart Hosting's technical team
recommended that for greater resilience and uptime it should migrate to a VMware Cloud
[http://www.iomarthosting.com/managed-hosting/managed-vmware ]. The migration process was
managed to ensure minimal impact on New Brand Vision's customers.
"iomart Hosting worked really closely with us and most importantly, listened to us in
order to produce the right solution," says Ben. "Now we have a very reactive platform
which benefits both us and our clients [http://www.newbrandvision.com/Portfolio ]."
Every new client the agency takes on is provided with a new virtual machine which
iomart Hosting deploys for them using a VM template which is then customised to sit behind
a fully managed dedicated firewall.
Ben Harrisbelieves that the IT infrastructure that iomart Hosting has provisioned for
New Brand Vision gives the agency a great framework on which to plan its clients'
campaigns.
"Many of the PR and marketing campaigns that we do for clients can result in
substantial increases in traffic on their websites so we have to be ready," he says. "For
a small campaign we can assign virtual resource very quickly, while for larger campaigns
that need load-balanced servers, it's much quicker but also much cheaper to roll them
out."
Sarah Haran, managing director of iomart Hosting, says: "The ultimate benefits of
having virtual servers on a cloud platform is that an agency like New Brand Vision gets
much more control over assigning resources for campaigns. It can plan better and respond
better."
Ben Harris agrees: "The platform we have with iomart Hosting has high availability.
It's fully virtualised and so gives us better control, while mitigating risk and saving
money for our clients."
New Brand Vision Group is based in Silicon Roundabout, the London hub for
entrepreneurial tech companies. It delivers websites to UK and global businesses across
media, finance, and services sectors.
iomart Hosting is part of iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM).
Notes for editors:
About iomart Hosting
iomart Hosting is one of the UK's leading providers of complex managed hosting and
cloud computing services to the enterprise market. It owns and manages its own network
infrastructure, including five UK data centres, offering a unique 100% uptime guarantee.
Services include: Private and Hybrid Cloud, Colocation, Content Delivery Networks, IP
Transit, Cloud Storage and Email.
Clients include: office2office, Misys, Cimex, BT plc, Stagecoach, Skyscanner, SoftCat,
Learndirect, London School of Economics, Newsquest , Shine TV and STV.
iomart Hosting is an ISO9001 & ISO27001 certified company. The company is fully
accredited at Gold Partner level with VMware, Oracle and Microsoft. It is part of AIM
listed iomart Group plc.
About iomart Group plc
iomart Group is one of the UK's leading providers of managed hosting and cloud
computing 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 global network infrastructure, iomart offers
world-beating levels of service to its customers. The Group offers a unique 100% uptime
guarantee with all hosting services being engineered to ensure no single point of failure.
iomart Group operates in its chosen markets through a number of subsidiaries: iomart
Hosting, RapidSwitch, Easyspace, EQSN and Westcoastcloud. The group has been listed on the
London Stock Exchange's Alternative Investment Market (AIM) since April 2000. For more
information about iomart Group plc visit http://www.iomart.com
News release issued on behalf of iomart Hosting by Jane Robertson, Head of PR for
iomart Group plc. For more information please email jane.robertson@iomart.com or call
+44(0)141-931-6474 (dir), +44(0)141-931-6400 or +44(0)7827948993 (mob).
Source: iomart Hosting