iomart - Calastone selects ‘Data Centre Operator of the Year’ for managed hosting

Calastone LogoStore this angel in big sizeCalastone announces acknowledged hosting alteration to iomart Hosting’s London website with assimilation of antecedent website for DR requirements

London, 24 June 2009 - Calastone Limited, the absolute cross-border transaction arrangement for the alternate funds industry, appear today that its abstracts centre outsource provider, iomart Hosting, has been called Data Centre Operator of the Year 2009 in the anniversary ‘Storrie’ awards, organised by Storage Magazine.

In December 2008, Calastone called iomart Hosting to accommodate its primary hosting accessories and auspiciously transitioned to iomart’s axial London area in April this year. As allotment of this cardinal development, Calastone has retained its antecedent abstracts centre as a absolutely activity adversity accretion (DR) website and will abide to advance added to ensure its adequacy to handle primary abstracts centre volumes. This will beggarly that, should DR anytime charge to be invoked, the appulse to barter will be minimised. Calastone’s new primary abstracts centre is amid in London, with the DR abstracts centre amid in Scotland. This ambit amid Calastone’s abstracts centres is allotment of the architecture to ensure, should operations above London be accountable to a above incident, that the abeyant appulse to Calastone’s DR site, and accordingly chump service, are minimised.

Ian Taylor, Chief Operating Officer of Calastone, said, “We congratulate iomart Hosting on their contempo award. We were assured in our adjustment of them as abstracts centre outsource provider and this alone affirms that we fabricated the appropriate decision.

Kevin Lee, Managing Director of Calastone added, “Our new abstracts centre delivers on Calastone’s cardinal affiance to barter and the bazaar as a whole, to abutment its accelerated advance in the affiliated chump community. By abutting to Calastone’s all-around transaction network, participants will account from absolutely cyberbanking STP throughout the transaction lifecycle, with their adopted messaging protocol.”

The champ of the ‘Storries’ accolade is called by readers of Storage Magazine who vote for, and reward, companies and casework they accept accept fabricated cogent contributions to the IT industry during the accomplished year. It is accepted that added than 20,000 votes were casting for this year’s awards.

Angus MacSween, CEO, iomart Hosting stated: “We are by itself actual admiring to accept won such a celebrated award, and equally, we were captivated to accept been appointed by Calastone. We formed carefully with the aggregation throughout the abstracts centre alteration and attending advanced to a abounding partnership.”

Calastone was accustomed in March 2007 by three joint-founders, Kevin Lee (Managing Director), Ian Taylor (Chief Operating Officer) and Campbell Brierley (Chief Technology Officer). From industry acquaintance they recognised that, clashing the institutional market, communications in the alternate armamentarium industry amid the armamentarium providers, distributors and their alteration agents was annihilation abbreviate of archaic. Messaging is still conducted by phone, fax, email, and excel spreadsheet; and the industry has been defective a transaction arrangement able of administration and interpreting instructions.

Calastone presents, for the aboriginal time, the befalling for the accomplished alternate armamentarium bazaar to become absolutely electronic. The abracadabra of the Calastone’s transaction arrangement is that participants are able to send/receive instructions in any way they prefer, whatever their messaging protocol. Also, for the aboriginal time, participants can clue their trades and administer exceptions on a real-time cyberbanking base throughout the transaction lifecycle. Real-time tracking through Calastone’s beheading administration arrangement helps firms abate not alone their costs but aswell operating risks.

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