Top American VAR chooses iomartcloud

SHI and iomart will work together to provide cloud Backup as a Service (BaaS) to businesses and organizations across the United States. SHI’s Backup as a Service is an end-to-end software and hardware backup and recovery solution that is delivered as a self or managed service. Cloud Backup from iomartcloud adds next-generation intelligent data backup and recovery to protect organizations’ critical data in a simple, unified solution. Through this BaaS system, IT departments gain a simple-to-use and easy-to-deploy enterprise-class managed service for both physical and virtual environments.

“Big Data offers organizations valuable insights into their business, but more companies need a simple way to store and secure their data assets,” said Richard Place, General Manager, Cloud Services at SHI International Corp. “SHI sought out iomartcloud based on its extensive experience in the European market with BaaS and Disaster Recovery offerings based on EMC Avamar technologies. Our customers can now take advantage of iomartcloud’s advanced customer interface, which offers a more user-friendly and efficient experience when executing simple or even advanced backup and recovery tasks.”

SHI International is a $4.45 billion global provider of information technology products and services based in Somerset, New Jersey. iomartcloud supplies business-critical hosted cloud services through an extensive network of partners and is part of iomart Group plc, one of the UK’s leading cloud computing companies.

“This partnership will extend to SHI customers a secure and scalable data backup,” said Bill Strain, director of iomartcloud. “With our white-labelled product, powered by storage leader EMC’s technology, SHI can now provide customers with a full range of on- and off-premises backup solutions that ensure efficient and reliable data storage and recovery for customers.”