TORONTO – Primus Canada broke ground Wednesday on a new high density data centre facility in Markham, ON, designed to meet the spiking demand among Toronto-area businesses for mission critical and business continuity solutions.
The first phase of this 30,000 square foot GTA Data Centre initiative will be a 7,500 square foot pod that is built to LEED standards for environmental sustainability. The facility will also include an HVAC system that leverages free-air cooling and optimized air distribution to achieve a 50% reduction in energy utilization over current facility designs, and effectively eliminate the water usage and waste resulting from the HVAC plant that is used in most data centre design.
To ensure clients' data is available to them when needed, the new facility will be certified to the Uptime Institute's Tier III Site specifications, meaning the site must have multiple independent distribution paths serving the IT equipment, all IT equipment must be dual-powered and fully compatible with the topology of a site's architecture and include concurrently maintainable site infrastructure guaranteeing the highest standards for service availability in the Canadian data centre market. It will also offer advanced disaster recovery features.
"Through our continuing national expansion program, we now have one of the largest data centre footprints in the country”, said CEO Andrew Day, in the announcement. Our Primus Business Services team has demonstrated its expertise and ongoing execution capabilities to be considered a data centre leader for the business market across Canada. We are designing and constructing state-of-the-art Tier III facilities that aim to meet our customer's managed services and cloud platform requirements well into the future."
