TORONTO – Cogeco Data Services (CDS) is increasing its data centre space by almost two football fields to meet the growing demand for managed information technology services and support for cloud computing initiatives.
The company said that through new construction and its recent acquisition of Quiettouch Inc., CDS will have more than 100,000 square feet of data centre space spread across six facilities – one in Vancouver, three in Toronto, one in Barrie, ON and one in Oakville, ON.
The new facilities, which will be designed, built and operated by CDS, will also offer 24/7/365 monitoring, power redundancy, support, biometrics, and on-site security. Additional space at CDS’ current Toronto facility is now fully operational with a new data centre slated for early in the new year. Space in its newly acquired Barrie and Oakville data centers is expected to be available to customers by mid-2012 and early 2013.
“Companies are using new cloud services to help expand their business, but are still being weighed down by demands on their IT infrastructure”, said CDS president Tony Ciciretto, in the announcement. “Our new data centre space and suite of managed IT services will help take the burden off our customers so they can focus on their core competencies and concentrate on growing their business.”
