Newly-created Rogers Data Centres targets Western Canada's B2B market

TORONTO – Rogers Communications has created a new operating unit called Rogers Data Centres and will open a new flagship data centre in Calgary early next year. The company said Wednesday that its Calgary facility will open in January, 2014 with 80,000 square feet of raised space, state-of-the-art and highly efficient cooling systems, world-class security measures, 24/7 support, and will meet Uptime Institute's Tier III standards. Rogers also said that it has expanded its Edmonton facility with approximately 6,000 square feet of newly-constructed raised floor space. Earlier this year, Rogers bought Blackiron Data, Pivot Data Centres and Granite Networks to expand its data centre...