IBM opens billion dollar Quebec cloud centre
March 9, 2015
Grazed from ComputerDealerNews. Author: Editorial Staff.
Big Blue today took the wraps off its second SoftLayer data centre in the Montreal suburb of Drummondville. IBM Canada just eight months ago cut the ribbon on a Toronto-based SoftLayer facility. According to IBM Canada officials, the Québec facility is part of $1.2 billion investment in cloud computing from the Armonk, N.Y.-based giant.
SoftLayer currently has a customer base of more than 1,000 organizations including start-ups, financial services/insurance, public sector and retailers. One of those clients is New York-based Baseline Medical Inc. and Silanis Technology Inc. of Montreal, the two companies formed a joint partnership more than 15 years ago to develop and deliver e-business solutions to healthcare and insurance markets along with government…
The partners were looking for greater level of application performance and responsiveness, in-country data redundancy while lowering latency by storing data workloads locally. For IBM Canada it was important to place the second SoftLayer facility in Quebec because the vendor wanted to offer French language access for companies in the region…
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