CALGARY – Shaw Communications and eStruxture Data Centers today announced an agreement which will see eStruxture acquire the assets of Shaw's Calgary-1 data center.
The Canadian company acquired all contractual relationships residing in the facility and the existing operational and sales teams with the deal. The addition of Shaw's Calgary facility complements eStruxture's existing portfolio of five data centers in Vancouver and Montreal. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed.
"We're excited to announce the acquisition of the newest, most state-of-the-art data center in Calgary, and welcome Shaw's existing data center employees and customers to eStruxture," said Todd Coleman, president and CEO of eStruxture, in the press release. "This acquisition furthers our strategy of becoming the leading cloud and carrier neutral provider in Canada. We are committed to keep pushing to deliver more for our customers – more capacity, more locations, and more cloud and network connections."
As part of the transaction, the companies have entered into a multi-year agreement that will see Shaw maintain a wholesale relationship with eStruxture and continue to resell colocation services through the Calgary-1 data center to further supplement Shaw's portfolio of connectivity services.
"We are pleased to work with such an innovative and dynamic Canadian company that will allow Shaw Business to nurture relationships with new and existing clients, while providing our teams with a strong data center partner to sell services through and best support our customers," added Katherine Emberly, president, business, brand and communications at Shaw, in the release.
The first phase of the 65,000 sq.-ft. Shaw data center was commissioned in August 2015 and can accommodate robust power densities up to 30kW per cabinet. Built with sustainability and efficiency in mind, the data center is highly energy efficient, made possible by the next generation, free air-cooling system deployed, reads the release.
