{"id":1838,"date":"2012-05-30T12:27:00","date_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cloudcomputing-news.net\/news\/2012\/may\/30\/iomart-eyes-big-data-their-stock-goes-and\/"},"modified":"2012-05-30T12:27:00","modified_gmt":"2012-05-30T12:27:00","slug":"iomart-eyes-big-data-as-their-stock-goes-up-and-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/iomart-eyes-big-data-as-their-stock-goes-up-and-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Iomart eyes big data as their stock goes up and up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>UK cloud service provider Iomart is centring primarily on big data having posted &ldquo;strong and solid&rdquo; figures for the last financial year.<\/p>\n<p>Iomart this week announced a two-thirds increase in pre-tax profits, up to &pound;6.9 million, and a one-third increase in revenue, up to &pound;33.5 million, and according to marketing director Phil Worms the figures were in line with company expectations.<\/p>\n<p>Worms used a football analogy to describe the results, telling Cloud Tech: &ldquo;We&rsquo;re delighted obviously, but as with anything you&rsquo;re only as good as your last result, so we&rsquo;re now focusing on the next set.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;It&rsquo;s extremely positive, but the market expected us to deliver,&rdquo; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Concerning the idea of big data &ndash; the transferral of data which exceeds the capacity of conventional databases &ndash; Worms stated that it was the &ldquo;next buzz word&rdquo; and that it was going to affect everyone in the &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>UK cloud service provider Iomart is centring primarily on big data having posted &ldquo;strong and solid&rdquo; figures for the last financial year.<br \/>\nIomart this week announced a two-thirds increase in pre-tax profits, up to &pound;6.9 million, and a on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1838","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1838"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1838\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1838"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1838"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icloud.pe\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1838"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}