Angus MacSween, iomart's CEO noted, ''This has been a transformational year with the successful sale of Ufindus for 20m pounds and the development of our complex managed hosting business using our own network of carrier neutral datacentres. We are now well positioned to address our chosen market with the firepower to make strategic acquisitions in combination with our organic growth.''

February 2007, iomart purchased four data centres and has since opened two fully-refurbished facilities - one in Glasgow, and one in the heart of the City of London. A third will be launched in Nottingham next week, with the final data center, Leicester, expected to be ready for business during August.

Despite investing 3m pounds in its data center infrastructure over the year, the group's profitability has suffered limited impact with EBITDA of 1M pounds (2007 1.3M pounds). The data center investment allows the company to offer its corporate clients a guarantee of 100 per cent uninterrupted service, or uptime, as the company can now offer a full end to end service proposition from domain name through to data center.

Angus MacSween, CEO of iomart, remarked, ''Our focus on the data centre offering is paying off and we're in a great position to win more high-margin corporate business. A complete 'one source' managed hosting service is very different to what's on offer from other providers, ie space and power only, which puts us in a very strong position in the market.''

Mr. MacSween added, ''We've equipped our four data centres with the latest technology and ensured that we have ample power to cope with expected future computing demands. We suffer none of the legacy problems that face many of today's operators and this, coupled with a decade of hosting expertise, has been a significant selling point for us. This has been demonstrated by the group winning its largest single contract worth 5.75m pounds over 5 years with BT.''

The average server rack now consumes 10 times more power than it did less than a decade ago. With this trend set to rise, future efficiencies have also been considered in the design of the data centres. In Nottingham for example iomart has installed the latest in efficient down flow units which are estimated to consume 7% less energy annually than the units they have replaced.

Mr. Angus continued, ''We recognise that we have a corporate, social and commercial responsibility to achieve the most efficient data centres that we can, and we will constantly seek to reduce our environmental impact where possible.'' The company also revealed it will look to use the proceeds of the Ufindus disposal to explore acquisition options over the next 12 months.

Mr. MacSween concluded, ''With the sale of Ufindus we find ourselves in the enviable position of having sufficient funding to fully underwrite our current business plans, without having to place reliance on borrowing facilities at this testing time in the credit market. We will be exploring a number of acquisition opportunities during the next year which will enable us to add revenues, skills and savings to the group.''

Founded in 1998, iomart provides services from virtualization, to colocation, and full server room outsourcing, along with a full range of managed hosting services. Each service is tailored to suit client's exact requirements. iomart is recognized as one of Europe's largest and most established data center facilities, hosting and managed services provider.

To learn more, please visit: www.iomart.com.