An illustration of CentriLogic's cloud computing solutions, taken from the company's website.
Canadian hosting and cloud computing company CentriLogic (www.centrilogic.com) announced on Wednesday that the first customers has gone live on its newly-launched US-based infrastructure-as-a-service cloud solution. The customer, Cookie Jar Entertainment, is a producer and distributor of children’s television programming and other entertainment products.
In April of this year, CentriLogic announced the launch of what it said was the first IaaS cloud solution based in Canada, housed in the company’s data center located in Mississauga, located just outside of Toronto.
CentriLogic says the introduction of the US-based offering gives the company one of the first North-America-wide IaaS offering, making the company “one of the only providers to enable geopolitical delineation of data resources through its own dedicated facilities in the US and Canada.”
The distribution of IT resources between the US and Canada addresses a geographic issue often raised by Canadian hosting providers – that regulatory concerns related to legal jurisdictions can make many Canadian customers, and some European customers, prefer to store data on infrastructure located in Canada over US-based installations.
“The issue of where data resides is growing in relevance as organizations move to the cloud but are expressing growing concern about the corresponding regulatory and compliance issues,” said Antonio Piraino, vice president and research director of Tier1 Research, quoted in the CentriLogic press release. “As a result, cloud infrastructure providers that have multiple nodes in different regulatory and legal jurisdictions have a value proposition that will draw wider and more diverse opportunities.”
According to the announcement, Cookie Jar Entertainment sought a new home for its web content that would enable it to consolidate its external-facing properties in a single location, via a solution that afforded room for growth, both planned and unexpected. The company had worked with CentriLogic in the past.
Jim Latimer, vice president of client solutions at CentriLogic, says Cookie Jar’s move to a cloud-based solution serves to demonstrate the effectiveness of on-demand IT resources as a back-end for complex production environments – a vote of confidence for the cloud.
“Cookie Jar Entertainment has broken through the hype and is proving that on-demand cloud services can offer a significant strategic opportunity to manage resources in a more flexible and dynamic environment,” says Latimer, also quoted in the release. “Cloud computing is an ideal approach for Web properties; training environments, quality assurance and testing; SaaS and software development; or any other infrastructure where demand is highly elastic or unpredictable.”
More information on CentriLogic’s cloud solutions are available in the cloud services section of the comapny’s website.
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Liam Eagle has worked as a contributor to the Web Host Industry Review since its inception in 2000, and as editor since 2003. He has been editor of the WHIR's print magazine since its launch. His daily involvement in the gathering and reporting of Web hosting news and his regular interaction with Web hosting leaders gives him an uncommonly broad appreciation of the issues and tends facing the business. Through his WHIR blog, Liam spots Web hosting trends and offers opinions on the industry-wide impacts of major developments and the motivation behind big announcements. Follow him on Twitter @liameagle
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