Multiple images of Q9's data centers, as taken from its website
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) –- Colocation and data center provider Q9 Networks (www.q9.com) announced on Monday it has opened the first two phases of a six megawatt data center in Kamloops, British Columbia.
The move comes a couple months after the company opened its sixth data center in the Brampton, a suburb of Toronto.
Initiated as part of the previously announced agreement with HP Advanced Solutions to provide data center services to the British Columbia government, the new facility opened April 1 as originally scheduled two years ago.
It will serve private sector as well as public sector customers in Western Canada.
“To my knowledge, we are the only data centre company in Canada to have ever completed back-to-back builds of this scale,” says Q9 CEO Osama Arafat. “The fact that they were both completed on time is a testament to our unique in-house design and build team; a team that allows us to deliver critical customer capacity in very aggressive timeframes. With the Kamloops opening, we have delivered on our commitment to HP Advanced Solutions. We are also excited about the opportunity to serve new and existing business customers in Vancouver and across Western Canada from the new Kamloops location.”
The Kamloops data center is built to Q9′s high standards and includes such features as outside air cooling capability to maximize energy efficiency, biometric security systems, multiple connections to the Internet, redundant power, redundant cooling and advanced fire detection and suppression systems, as well as 24-hour on-site security and technical support teams.
The new data center is interconnected with Q9′s three other data centers in Western Canada, offering customers a range of business continuity options using two or more data centres.
Q9 designs, builds and operates its data centers to meet the most demanding IT infrastructure requirements, including the increased power and cooling demands of high density computing devices.
Customers connect to the Internet via Q9′s unique network and are protected by Q9′s 100 percent, SLA-backed uptime guarantees on both power and network availability.
Additionally, customer equipment and data center environmental parameters are monitored around the clock by Q9′s control centers.
Q9 has seen rapid growth in the last three years. To meet these demands, the company has doubled its capacity across Canada, as well as acquired real estate sufficient to nearly triple current capacity within its existing footprint.
Including the new Kamloops facility, Q9 has 10 operational data centers in three provinces, with investments in data center capacity totalling more than $340 million since 2000.
Last April, Q9 secured $210 million in new financing to expand its data center space.
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