Shaw leverages ViaWest's expertise in new Calgary data centre

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...