TORONTO – Managed hosting and cloud services provider Cogeco Peer 1, today announced it has changed its name to Aptum Technologies. The move follows the $720 million acquisition of the company from Cogeco Communications by Digital Colony.
“Aptum means ‘adaptability’ and reflects our heritage and vision for the future,” said Susan Bowen, Aptum CEO, in the press release earlier this week. Bowen was president of Cogeco Peer 1 prior to the sale of the company. “As businesses face exponentially increasing volumes of information, and data becomes an integral part of their infrastructure, technology platforms must adapt and harness the power of data to enable better decision making, risk evaluation and customer engagement. We help organizations unlock the potential of their data by providing a robust infrastructure that enables customers to solve complex challenges and maximize the potential of their businesses.”
Headquartered in Toronto, Aptum will operate with two focused business units — data centre and fibre. The data centre business will concentrate on enabling multi-cloud services for enterprises while the fibre business will be an independent, neutral-host provider of small cell and 5G infrastructure, and enterprise and wholesale fibre connectivity with an extensive metro fibre network across greater Toronto and Montreal, reads the press release.
Aptum is led by an experienced executive team that includes Bowen (right), CFO Shenif Visram, president and head of fibre 
Sanjay Sachdev, and chief revenue officer and head of the data centre business Leighton Plumley.
Concurrent with the rebranding, Aptum has launched two new offerings that expand and enhance its customers’ hybrid cloud options:
- Managed Amazon Web Services (AWS), which include consultation; architecture/design; solution build and configuration; migration; project management; ongoing service management and optimization; and 24/7 expert support.
- New cloud connect availability, an expansion of Cloud Connect, which offers a direct, dedicated and secure connection to cloud services.
