LONDON, July 17, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --
iomart Hosting has been chosen by Questionmark, one of the
world's leading providers of assessment management technologies, to
create a platform to provide a European based OnDemand service that
meets the data security needs of its customers in Europe.
iomart Hosting, one of the UK's leading providers of cloud
computing and managed hosting services, was selected by
Questionmark to provide a secure and flexible cloud hosting
platform with dedicated network firewall perimeter in its secure,
resilient Tier 3 London data centre.
Eric Shepherd, CEO of
Questionmark, said: "Questionmark's European assessment cloud
reflects our commitment to meeting the needs of our many European
and global customers for whom compliance with EU data privacy and
security directives is paramount.
Questionmark's customers deliver high-stakes tests and
certification exams and they simply cannot compromise on the
availability, reliability and security of their assessment
management. They rely on Questionmark to provide 24 by 7 service,
global support, service continuity, measures that target 100%
uptime and a decades-long track record of providing trustable
results to clients worldwide and we selected iomart as they share
those same high standards."
Questionmark, which is headquartered in London with offices in the US (Norwalk, Connecticut), Canada and Europe, will now be able to offer its
customers the security, availability and flexibility of a platform
which combines iomart's private CloudSure environment with a
physical VMware Enterprise Plus cluster to segregate its database
servers to ensure the platform satisfies EU data privacy laws and
customer's requirements.
Sarah Haran, managing director of
iomart Hosting, said: "Users of Questionmark's European OnDemand
service want to know that their data is stored securely and that
the data centre in which it is hosted is fully resilient and meets
data regulations in the UK and Europe. iomart Hosting is providing
Questionmark with a fully redundant N+1 hybrid infrastructure to
provide them with this peace of mind as well as the ability to
burst workloads into the cloud."
Questionmark® OnDemand enables learning and assessment
professionals to create, deliver and analyse surveys, quizzes,
tests and exams. Users benefit from collaborative authoring
features, multilingual assessment management, blended delivery
options including mobile devices, and extensive reporting and
analytics capabilities. There are currently more than 1500
corporate, governmental and academic organisations worldwide
relying on Questionmark technologies to measure knowledge, skills
and attitudes for certification, regulatory compliance, successful
learning outcomes, performance improvement and talent management.
The company's new European-based OnDemand service complements
Questionmark's existing OnDemand services, which have been
available globally for several years in compliance with the
US-EU Safe Harbor program via a US-based
Cybertrust-certified, SSAE 16 audited datacentre.
iomart Hosting's data centres are ISO: 27001 and ISO: 9001
accredited and fully compliant with the relevant requirements of
PCI DSS v1.2. They have full intrusion protection and fully
disclosed technical staff and are operational round-the-clock 365
days a year.
"We are seeing an increasing number of customers opting for
OnDemand as opposed to deploying our technologies on-premise -- and
the reasons extend beyond the speed and ease of deployment,"
Eric Shepherd continued. "On-premise
deployment requires more than the initial investments in server and
network hardware, both of which depreciate over time; it also
entails constant monitoring, daily backups, patching and updates
that can be staff-intensive and costly. Customers are
increasingly looking to OnDemand as a secure, reliable and more
cost-effective alternative."
For more information contact iomart Group PR Manager,
+44-141-931-6400, jane.robertson@iomart.com