SAP to open Canadian cloud datacentre

Grazed from BusinessCloudNews. Author: Editorial Staff.

German software giant SAP announced plans to open its first Canadian datacentre, which is being built in Toronto, one of Canada’s largest cities. SAP Canada’s managing director Bob Elliot said the move will help the company accommodate Canadian customers looking for in-country SAP cloud solutions.

“We’re seeing a growing demand for cloud based solutions from our Canadian customers. They want to take a step into the cloud, but they’re still nervous about this new way of doing things,” Elliot said. “Our customers here range from government agencies to healthcare and financial services companies and almost all of them have strict data security requirements. They want the data housed on Canadian soil, because of confidentially issues.”…

“We needed to accommodate that to grow the SAP business here,” he added. The logic seems to be reflected in third party research, to some extent. According to IDC, 60 per cent of those buying cloud service prefer them to be delivered within Canada. But the firm’s research also suggests buying in-Canada solutions ranked unusually low among a list of factors weighed up in the decision making process around cloud services…

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