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3 February 2015.

Protect more than 100TB of data for public sector organisations.

Backup Technology (BTL) and parent company iomart (AIM:IOM), one of the UK and Europe’s leading cloud companies, have been awarded places on G-Cloud 6, the UK Government’s Digital Marketplace.

BTL has been accredited as a provider of Specialist Cloud Services which covers a wide range of services including: cloud strategy and implementation; the set up and management of service structures and data transfer between providers. BTL has been on G Cloud since it was first created by the UK Government to make buying cloud services easier for the public sector and to open up competition for contracts to SMEs.

iomart has been accredited to supply Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS); Platform as a Service (PaaS); Software as a Service (SaaS); and Specialist Cloud Services. Among the services it offers are: vCloud and vCloud IaaS – self-managed and hosted virtual infrastructure services based on a VMware vCloud environment; Desktop as a Service; Hosted Exchange and Storage; Business Mail plus Mail and Web Filtering; File Sync and Share; and Advanced DDoS Protection using Arbor Network’s Peakflow solution.

In total iomart and BTL now protect more than 100TBs of data for public sector organisations including the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board, two councils in Northern Ireland, and Essex County Fire & Rescue Service (ECFRS), one of the largest county fire services in the UK.

Jan Swanwick, Head of ICT for Essex County Fire & Rescue Service, explains, “Traditionally procurement has been a long, protracted process. With G-Cloud it is very straightforward because all the supplier and product information has already been collated and validated.”

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart, says, “For public sector organisations the benefits of procuring services through G Cloud are manifest because they don’t have to go through costly and time-intensive due diligence on potential service providers. Cloud services can be bought off-the-shelf quickly and easily because the background checks have already been done.”

Some members of the Backup Technology team will be in attendance at this year’s BCS & Computing UK IT Industry Awards evening which is being hosted at Battersea Park Arena in London.

Backup Technology, proud member of the iomart Group, has reached the finals for the award category ‘Best use of Cloud Services’ in recognition for the implementation of their Cloud Backup and Virtual Disaster Recovery solution for Pernod Ricard EMEA.

Backup Technology has successfully rolled out their Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery services to numerous offices across Europe, Asia and North Africa for Pernod. By providing a centralised backup and DR strategy and solution, Backup Technology has helped Pernod Ricard EMEA to substantially improve its ability to ensure all its business critical data is quickly and securely protected and stored offsite.

Backup Technology face some stern competition with the likes of British Gas and DVLA also competing for this prestigious award but remain in high hopes of bringing the award back home to Leeds.

BTL’s very own Sales and Service Director Rob Mackle will be heading the team that is attending the awards evening tonight is in high hopes and is in no doubt that it will be a great evening.

Rob stated, “The awards evening is bound to be a fantastic evening. There are some strong contenders for this award but it will be a fantastic effort to win and would just help to emphasise the overall success that the project has been.”