(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) — Canadian data center operator Q9 Networks (www.q9.com) announced this week that law firm Fraser Milner Casgrain had chosen the company to provide a “comprehensive data center outsourcing solution” that will see the customer consolidate IT assets from six offices across Canada into one Q9 facility.
The announcement says Q9 will provide FMC with “secure and redundant physical infrastructure” in one of its data centers, along with managed bandwidth and 24-hour monitoring for its IT systems.
It is not specified in the release which one of Q9’s data centers will be the site of the consolidation (the company operates data centers in Toronto, Calgary and Brampton), but it does say the project will begin with the law firm’s Calgary office, which hints at the fact that it is very likely the Calgary data center.
Q9 says that by colocating in its facility, FMC will free up space previously used to house IT equipment, and reduce the number of devices required to support its staff by up to 50 percent.
“We’re moving from a highly distributed IT department model to a national shared services group which has far better economies of scale,” says Scott Saundry, chief technology officer at FMC, quoted in the press release. “After conducting a thorough RFP process, we determined that Q9 is in a class by itself when it comes to its single focus, rigorous procedures and the quality of its facilities. Q9 makes it possible for us to move to a centralized, high-security, high performance facility that can meet our needs for the foreseeable future at a reduced cost.”
Q9 says that FMC, like all its customers, will be supported by its 100 percent uptime guarantee SLAs on both power and network availability.
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