iomart shortlisted as finalist for Scottish Business Awards

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(Free-Press-Release.com) November 9, 2011 -- iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM), the managed hosting and cloud services company, has been shortlisted as a finalist for the Scottish Business Awards.
The Scottish Business Awards is the biggest cross-industry business awards event in Scotland and celebrates excellence, entrepreneurship and innovation. iomart has been nominated in the Growth Strategy of the Year category.
It is the second major Scottish business award that iomart has been shortlisted for in the last six months. In June of this year iomart was crowned Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year.

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart Group plc, said: “The nominees for the Scottish Business Awards read like a ‘who’s who’ of Scottish business and iomart is delighted to have been shortlisted alongside them. iomart is gaining increasing recognition in Scotland, the UK and beyond as one of the leading providers of cloud services and managed hosting. We continue to benefit from the trend of organisations seeking to reduce their IT costs by outsourcing mission critical business applications to trusted hosting partners. ”

iomart Group plc was also a shortlisted finalist in the Santander SME of the Year category at the UK’s National Business Awards which took place last night in London. The judges praised iomart, saying: “Showing courage by taking the opportunity to grow, iomart is operating in a highly competitive market but proving to be capable of expansion through organic growth and acquisition.”

The judging panel for the Scottish Business Awards will be chaired by Duncan Bannantyne OBE. The winners will be announced at a ceremony at the Edinburgh International Conference Centre on 25 February 2012.
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News release issued by Jane Robertson, Head of PR for iomart Group plc. For more information please email jane.robertson@iomart.com or call 0141 931 6474 (dir), 0141 931 6400 or 07827948993 (mob).
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About iomart Group plc:

iomart Group plc (AIM:IOM) 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, Titan Internet, Easyspace 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 www.iomart.com

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