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iomart Group is an information technology and cloud computing company that was founded in 1998 by entrepreneur Angus MacSween. 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. Iomart Group has expertise in Vendor, platform and technology agnostic cloud hosting. , iomart owns and manages data centres in eight locations across the UK. iomart Group operates a number of different brands including Melbourne Server Hosting which serves the SME market, Backup Technology which provides cloud backup, disaster recovery and business continuity, as well as Easyspace, RapidSwitch and Redstation. , iomart employs more than 360 staff, two thirds of whom are based at its offices on the West of Scotland Science Park in Glasgow. == 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 £2million to Centrica and in 2003 the group acquired Web Genie Internet Ltd for £437thousand. 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Iomart Group」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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