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Primus inks deal with Utilismart


LONDON, ON – Primus’ business services team has partnered with Utilismart Corp. on a secured data centre environment in Primus’ London, ON data centre location.

Under the agreement, Primus will provide additional data centre services, including backup, disaster recovery and hosting solutions for Utilismart’s Canadian and U.S.-based customers.  Utilismart provides energy management and settlement solutions for electric utilities.

"We take the integrity of our customers’ data very seriously and we are confident that their data is being managed and operated by one of Primus’ ultra-secure, world-class data centres," said Utilismart president and CEO Bruce Smith, in the announcement. "Customer driven requirements in Ontario, eastern Canada and the U.S., combined with our own belief that customers would eventually want to do more with the data we were already collecting on their behalf, continues to be central to all of our business decisions and choosing Primus Data Centre Services is a direct reflection of that."

Primus has data centres in Toronto, Ottawa, Edmonton, London and Vancouver which are designed to keep websites, servers and critical applications connected to the Internet for 100% uptime.

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