Canadian Startups Leveraging Enterprise-Class Cloud Technologies get to Market Faster

Grazed from MarketWire. Author: PR Announcement.

CANARIE, a vital component of Canada’s digital infrastructure supporting research, education and innovation, today announced the results of a survey conducted with a cohort of its Digital Accelerator for Innovation and Research (DAIR) users. DAIR offers one year of cloud-based compute, network and storage resources for entrepreneurs and small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to develop, test, prototype and demonstrate next-generation products.

Canadian companies are embracing cloud computing because the technology allows them to cost-effectively build products that can quickly scale to meet the demands of a global customer base. To date roughly 300 SMEs across Canada have used the DAIR platform to support product development and customer trials prior to commercial introduction of a wide array of software as a service (SaaS) applications…

DAIR users surveyed provided insight into how cloud resources can support accelerated commercialization in startups that are squeezed for both time and money. Survey participants said that DAIR:…

Read more from the source @ http://www.marketwired.com/press-release/canadian-startups-leveraging-enterprise-class-cloud-technologies-get-market-faster-1945417.htm