Premier vCloud air managed services provider

As a VMware Enterprise Managed Services partner, iomart offers VMware based virtualisation and backup solutions to our customers. VMware is one of the world’s leading providers of cloud infrastructure and virtualisation software, enabling the delivery of cloud services to over 500,000 organisations worldwide. vCloud Air Network solutions enable rapid and cost effective delivery of hybrid cloud services that our customers increasingly demand. Whether infrastructure-as-a-service, disaster recovery or desktop-as-a-service, iomart can offer VMware solutions with a decreased time to market, reduced capital investments and lower development costs.

Tier 1 cloud solution provider and Gold hosting partner

iomart is delighted to be a Tier 1 Cloud Solution Provider partner with Microsoft, one of the first in Europe. This allows us to directly provision, manage and support Microsoft cloud offerings such as Office 365 and the Azure Cloud platform, for our customers. Additionally, iomart is a certified Microsoft Gold Hosting Partner, able to design and implement Microsoft-based hosting solutions while delivering outstanding support.

iomart is a Qualified Multitenant Hoster (QMTH) authorized by Microsoft to host your Windows virtual machines via Microsoft Cloud Agreement subscription or Enterprise Agreement/MPSA on dedicated or multitenant hardware. In addition, we are also authorized to host Office 365 ProPlus (including E3 and E5), Project Online Professional, and Visio Pro for Office 365 subscriptions using shared computer activation (SCA) technology.

Benefits of Windows 10 Virtualization and Shared Computer Activation for Office 365 ProPlus, Project Online Professional, and Visio Pro for Office 365

Windows 10 virtualization and SCA for Office 365 ProPlus, Project Online Professional, and Visio Pro for Office 365 gives you choice and flexibility. Both allow you to take advantage of existing Windows 10 and Office 365 licensing investments when deploying to the cloud. You are able to make a deployment choice between on-premises or iomart’s shared datacenter. iomart is an Authorized QMTH Partner, allowing you to deploy Office 365 ProPlus, Project Online Professional, Visio Pro for Office 365, and qualified Windows 10 products to your chosen cloud infrastructure solution.

Which Windows licenses purchased through Microsoft Volume Licensing (VL) programs include virtualization rights for Qualified Multitenant Hosting?

As of August 1, 2017, the following Windows licenses purchased through Microsoft Volume Licensing currently include virtualization rights for Qualified Multitenant Hosting:
• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 per User with SA
• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 VDA per User

Which Windows subscriptions purchased under the Microsoft Cloud Agreement from iomart will include virtualization rights?

As of September 6, 2017, the following Windows subscriptions include virtualization rights for dedicated as well as multitenant hardware in data centers managed by Authorized QMTH Partners such as iomart:
• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 and E5 (with VDI)
• Windows 10 Enterprise E3 VDA
• Microsoft 365 Enterprise (formerly Secure Productive Enterprise or SPE) E3 and E5

Which Office 365 products support SCA?

SCA mode works with Office 365 ProPlus, Project Online Professional, and Visio Pro for Office 365. All Office 365 plans that include Office 365 ProPlus, Project Online Professional, or Visio Pro for Office 365 are able to use SCA.

Registered partner

iomart has created a Managed AWS offering, allowing us to provide customers with the many features and benefits of AWS, such as flexibility, cost-effectiveness and availability, with the expertise, management and support services we can provide as a leading independent cloud provider.

Premier service provider partner

DELL EMC is the worlds largest hardware solutions and cloud computing company, helping customers deliver scalable and cost effective IT services and store, manage, protect and analyse their most valuable data in an agile and cost-efficient way. Utilising DELL EMC’s Avamar, Data Domain, VMAX and VNX hardware allows iomart to deliver enterprise grade data protection solutions.

iomart continues to invest in Cisco technology to ensure it is at the forefront of innovation in the cloud computing industry. We have installed new Cisco routing technology to ensure our network can meet the growing demand for capacity and we were the first cloud company to deploy Cisco Dynamic Fabric Automation (DFA) and Bi Directional (BiDi) Transmission technology to turn our facility in Maidenhead into a truly software defined data centre.

Disaster recovery partner

iomart utilises Zerto’s industry leading service to offer outstanding Disaster Recovery as a Service. With some of the best Recovery Time and Recovery Point objectives available, ClouDRaaS not only minimises any downtown, but with one-click recovery through our control panel, your business can be back up and running within minutes.

Our partnership with OpenStack allows us to offer the Swift Object Storage Platform to our customers under our Cloud Storage range. OpenStack enables iomart to control large pools of compute, storage and networking resources throughout our data centre network.

Global partner

Backup Technology,one of the iomart family of companies, formed a strategic partnerships with Asigra in 2005 and is now one of it’s largest global partners storing over 20 Petabytes of data for major UK and global brands. Asigra is an innovative supplier of cloud backup, business continuity and disaster recovery solutions.

Security partner

iomart partners with AlertLogic to provide a full range of Security as a Service solutions to our customers. As one of the most accredited cloud companies, we have a commitment to delivering secure, robust and resilient cloud services – with increasing concerns around cyber threats, the skills, expertise and continuous updates available from AlertLogic help us deliver on that commitment.

Service provider partner

iomart works with Arbor Networks, a leading provider of DDoS and advanced threat protection solutions, to offer its Peakflow SP platform to our CloudSure customers. Peakflow SP combines network-wide anomaly detection and traffic engineering with carrier-class threat management, which automatically detects and surgically removes only attack traffic, while maintaining legitimate business traffic.

Enterprise service provider

Our relationship with Symantec as an Enterprise Service Provider allows us to easily offer Symantec solutions to our customers on a cloud model. Symantec’s products cover security, archiving and eDiscovery as well as antivirus and backup solutions.

Industry leading security solutions

Working with Imperva Incapsula, one of the leading providers of enterprise grade DDoS, site security and content acceleration services, iomart is able to offer industry leading solutions for the most demanding of internet facing applications.

Our partnership with Cohesity allows iomart to offer a single hyperconverged platform to protect, store and manage all your secondary data and applications across multiple locations and cloud environments.

Cohesity simplifies backups, test/dev, disaster recovery, and analytics, eliminating infrastructure silos that result in mass data fragmentation, and provides analytics that generate data insights that fuel competitive advantage.

Data Analytics with Limits.

Through our partnership with Vertica, we offer a fully managed service including free proof of concepts and flexible licensing at up to half the cost of AWS.

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