Westcoastcloud Offers Free Email Archiving to Webroot Customers

GLASGOW, Scotland, January 18, 2012 /PRNewswire/ --

UK cloud services company will pay transfer fees for migrating data

UK hosted cloud services provider Westcoastcloud, is offering Webroot customers the chance to transfer their email archiving to its BusinessMail service for free after it was announced that the US company would no longer offer email archiving from the end of March.

Webroot customers have to move to offshoot Sonian by the end of February or migrate their data to other providers at a cost of £6.39p per Gigabyte by the end of March.

Westcoastcloud says it will pay the migration cost of £6.39 per GB itself for any Webroot customers who want to transfer their email archiving to its own cloud-based BusinessMail service.  The offer of free migration is open to any customers signing up for Westcoastcloud's BusinessMail services prior to 1^st May 2012.

Westcoastcloud director Bill Strain said: "Webroot's decision to end email archiving in the UK appears to follow a current trend for companies in the IT marketplace to change their business model. This is why it's so important that when you select a supplier for a service as business critical as data storage, you engage with one that is committed to the UK market and has both the proven expertise and physical hosting infrastructure to support you for many years to come."

Westcoastcloud offers the whole range of business critical cloud services including email, backup, storage and web security. All its services are hosted through parent company iomart Group plc's wholly owned and managed network of UK data centres.

Westcoastcloud is a subsidiary of iomart Group plc which is ranked as one of the top 25 cloud services providers in the world by Talkin' Cloud 50 and was named Scottish Digital IT Company of the Year 2011. Westcoastcloud director Bill Strain was named IT Leader of the Year 2011 by IT Pro.

About Westcoastcloud

WestCoastCloud delivers business-critical cloud solutions for service providers of all sizes - from small niche specialists to large multinationals. Its range of cloud service solutions suits any market and any provider from consumer to ISP.

Westcoastcloud is part of AIM listed iomart Group plc, one of the UK's leading providers of managed hosting and cloud computing services. From a single server through to complex 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. For more information about Westcoastcloud visit http://www.westcoastcloud.com  For more information about iomart Group plc visit http://www.iomart.com  

For more information please contact Westcoastcloud on +44(0)370-050-0121 or email info@westcoastcloud.com

Release issued on behalf of Westcoastcloud by Jane Robertson, Head of PR for iomart Group plc. For more information please email jane.robertson@iomart.com  or call +44(0)141-931-6474 (dir), +44(0)141-931-6400 or +44(0)7827948993 (mob).