IBM Opens New Cloud Center in Québec
New facility provides Canadian customers with local SoftLayer cloud services
while keeping data in country Dallas—March 10, 2015—Continuing to expand
its cloud-computing footprint in North America, IBM (NYSE: IBM) today announced
the opening of its newest SoftLayer cloud center in Drummondville, just
outside of Montréal, Québec, Canada. This is IBM’s second cloud center
in the country, which follows the recent opening of the Toronto facility
in August 2014.
The Montréal facility is part of IBM’s $1.2 billion investment to expand it
s global cloud services portfolio. Aligning with client preferences for keepin
g data in country,the new cloud center provides a second Canadian location in
which local customers can store, compute, and back up data. This is especially
important to financial institutions, public-sector organizations, and many
large enterprises. This strategic expansion will allow Québec-based
organizations to achieve a new level of application performance and
responsiveness by providing customers with a local facility for low-latency
connections as well as the ability for in-country data redundancy in both
Montréal and Toronto.
One such customer is Baseline Telematics, a world leader in "Pay As You Drive"
insurance solutions. Baseline turned to IBM to help the company deliver its
solution as a turnkey service to its global client base. Choosing the IBM
Cloud was a key part of Baseline’s international success as it has allowed
them to instantly deliver their mission-critical insurance applications on an
infrastructure capable of providing the reliability, speed, and efficiency
required by their data-intensive “connected vehicle” applications.
For more information about the Montréal data center, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/ca/en/softlayer.html. For more information about SoftLayer’s cloud centers, visit http://www.softlayer.com/datacenters.
Baseline Telematics is a world leading insurance telematics provider, ranked in the top five by the Ptolemus group in 2013. For more information on Baseline, visit www.baselinetelematics.com.
About IBM Cloud Computing
IBM is the global leader in open enterprise cloud enabling secure data and infrastructure integration in the cloud. For more information about cloud offerings from IBM, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud. Follow us on Twitter @IBMcloud and on our blog at www.thoughtsoncloud.com. Join the conversation #ibmcloud.For more information about the Montréal data center, visit http://www.ibm.com/cloud-computing/ca/en/softlayer.html. For more information about SoftLayer’s cloud centers, visit
http://www.softlayer.com/datacenters.
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