He added: "In fact that's how we really won any work with them at all. It started with a very small development environment, which they needed to turn around in seven days. They then just kept growing it until we were hosting all of their development stuff, then we won some of their EU sites, which ultimately put us in the position to go for .com".

Gardiner also hinted that some public sector work could be in the pipeline for the company, as he said that the deal with Thomas Cook had "given it credibility to work with central government".

Lee Pritchard, Head of Infrastructure at Thomas Cook Online, said that the new agreement allowed the company to better manage its costs.

"The vendor neutral support and proactive technical innovation that CatN has provided is unlike anything else we have found in the marketplace. They have helped us to achieve our consolidation objectives very quickly, taking advantage of the best technologies available rather than being limited to solutions from large vendors," said Pritchard.

"A major advantage of the CatN platform for us has been the extensive and proactive monitoring which has given us the confidence to easily scale and plan our server deployments to meet actual demand. We no longer need to over-spend on unnecessary and expensive hardware requirements because we now have the agility to scale quickly."