
CALGARY – Shaw is opening a new 40,000 square feet data centre in Calgary that will offer business customers a variety of hybrid solutions, including cloud, colocation, managed services or any combination in between.
The facility, scheduled to open in the fall of 2015, is Shaw's first Canadian data centre initiative following its 2014 acquisition of Denver-based ViaWest.
The data centre will be carrier-neutral, allowing businesses to take advantage of Shaw's fibre network, a carrier of their choice, or a combination of both. Staffed by a team of engineers, the centre features physical security monitoring and high resolution video surveillance, the latest in power delivery equipment and energy efficient cooling, and will offer customer amenities including meeting rooms, private workstations and a cyber café. A virtual tour is available here.
"Businesses across the country are becoming increasingly reliant on more complex, and always-on applications to interact with their customers, which requires an increased level of IT resource costs and support," said Shaw Business SVP Ron McKenzie, in the news release. "The launch of our new Calgary data centre will allow us to help organizations meet these expanding IT needs by providing fully configurable hybrid solutions that will simplify functions, manage costs and help our customers grow their business."