iomart Provides Cloud Hosting for The Drum News Website

iomart Hosting Ltd. is providing cloud hosting for The Drum Ltd. the marketing and media news website
which generates as many headlines as it prints.

They have chosen iomart VMware-powered CloudSure platform to ensure an available online presence. iomart also provisioned EMC Avamar to deliver enterprise Cloud Backup for
The Drum.

Nick Creed, digital director of The Drum, said: "The Drum has
expanded rapidly over the last 24 months with a huge increase in traffic to the
site. Moving our hosting to iomart’s CloudSure platform has ensured we can
continue to expand with the confidence we have the infrastructure that will be
able to expand with us. The platform allows us to have the flexibility we need
for our future plans and iomart’s proactive support ensures we have the systems
expertise to hand as the business expands."

One of the benefits of using CloudSure is that customers can manage
their billing, spin up virtualised servers and manage power and bandwidth, all
from one Cloud Control Panel.

Sarah Haran, MD of iomart Hosting, said: "The
Drum is one of the most visited news and marketing websites and often makes the
headlines itself leading to big spikes in traffic, so we are delighted that it
has chosen our enterprise cloud services to deliver reliability, data security
and guaranteed performance."

Headquartered in Glasgow, The Drum is expanding in the South East of
England and gaining an international audience. Their website has over 340,000
unique visitors every month but that increased to 420,000 when it became the
first UK-based website to publish the controversial photos of a naked Prince
Harry last week.

iomart Hosting is part of AIM-listed iomart Group plc which has six
data centre locations across the UK delivering bespoke cloud and managed
hosting services to some of the country’s best known brands and organisations.