IBM Smarter Datacenter opens in Canada
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TORONTO,
ONTARIO and Barrie, Ontario September 21, 2012 - IBM (NYSE: IBM), in
collaboration with the governments of Canada and Ontario and the City of
Barrie today unveiled one of the most advanced computer facilities in
the nation: IBM Canadian Leadership Data Center. The
center based in Barrie, Ontario, was designed from the outset with the
latest advances in the management of energy efficiency in the data
center, business continuity, resilience, security services and disaster
recovery disaster for help organizations to effectively manage growth and reduce costs and mitigate risks firmly.
The data center represents an investment of US $ 90 million and IBM will create 20 skilled jobs in Barrie, as part of the $ 175 million IBM invested and 145 jobs created through the launch in April 2012 network of IBM Research and Business Development. Over time, the new data center will provide the infrastructure and key personnel to help research and development initiatives underway related to support this network. IBM financing is supported by the government of the previous investment of $ 15 million for these initiatives in Ontario."Canadian organizations are seeking more strategic to increase operational efficiency and position themselves for sustainable growth forms," said John Lutz, president of IBM Canada. "We continue to invest in intelligent infrastructure in Canada because businesses can not afford downtime with current economic pressures. This new facility provides a flexible base anchored in best practices so we can deliver basic services to help organizations and partners better manage data, lower operational costs, improve productivity and gain competitive advantage. "
Fifty percent of Canadian organizations recently surveyed reported that providing sufficient space for data center and ensure the availability required to meet the demands of customer service are some of its biggest challenges. * This is especially important for high availability industries like financial services, government and retail. However, organizations typically spend about 70 percent of their IT budgets just to keep existing settings. In parallel, IDC estimates that the amount of information managed by enterprises will grow 50 times over the next decade, with the number of associated servers installed by organizations increasing by 49 percent over the next two years. **Large organizations are taking steps to address these problems. In a survey of 300 IT leaders from IBM, 21 percent of organizations who ran efficient data centers were able to spend 50 percent more on new projects and innovation to make their organizations more successful.
The highly efficient, modular center is specially designed for a set of metrics global best practices that demonstrate improved productivity and effectiveness in space, energy and data management These attributes will help organizations adapt existing processes and infrastructure or profitable to invest more effectively support business growth and mitigate the risk of costly system failures.
For example, the center will provide synchronous replication of data with another center that is 100 km. This means that organizations that rely on critical 24/7 systems can locate their primary IT operations in one center and establish a data recovery center enough to reduce the risk of a geographic disaster impacting both sites, but close enough to ensure operational or customer data is always available.The new facility will offer 25,000 square feet of initial capacity with the ability to grow to 100,000 square feet. IBM has designed and delivered more than 1,000 similar modular data centers for customers around the world. The modular data center design uses small increments of standardized components to meet business needs with IT requirements and only add data center capacity when needed. Modular centers can be developed in half the time of a traditional data center to easily accommodate growing demand. They help customers save up to 30 percent per year in energy costs compared to traditional centers.
This new addition to the existing network of 17 data centers in Canada strengthens IBM $ 75 million investment by the company in Markham and data centers based in Montreal in 2011.
The data center represents an investment of US $ 90 million and IBM will create 20 skilled jobs in Barrie, as part of the $ 175 million IBM invested and 145 jobs created through the launch in April 2012 network of IBM Research and Business Development. Over time, the new data center will provide the infrastructure and key personnel to help research and development initiatives underway related to support this network. IBM financing is supported by the government of the previous investment of $ 15 million for these initiatives in Ontario."Canadian organizations are seeking more strategic to increase operational efficiency and position themselves for sustainable growth forms," said John Lutz, president of IBM Canada. "We continue to invest in intelligent infrastructure in Canada because businesses can not afford downtime with current economic pressures. This new facility provides a flexible base anchored in best practices so we can deliver basic services to help organizations and partners better manage data, lower operational costs, improve productivity and gain competitive advantage. "
Fifty percent of Canadian organizations recently surveyed reported that providing sufficient space for data center and ensure the availability required to meet the demands of customer service are some of its biggest challenges. * This is especially important for high availability industries like financial services, government and retail. However, organizations typically spend about 70 percent of their IT budgets just to keep existing settings. In parallel, IDC estimates that the amount of information managed by enterprises will grow 50 times over the next decade, with the number of associated servers installed by organizations increasing by 49 percent over the next two years. **Large organizations are taking steps to address these problems. In a survey of 300 IT leaders from IBM, 21 percent of organizations who ran efficient data centers were able to spend 50 percent more on new projects and innovation to make their organizations more successful.
The highly efficient, modular center is specially designed for a set of metrics global best practices that demonstrate improved productivity and effectiveness in space, energy and data management These attributes will help organizations adapt existing processes and infrastructure or profitable to invest more effectively support business growth and mitigate the risk of costly system failures.
For example, the center will provide synchronous replication of data with another center that is 100 km. This means that organizations that rely on critical 24/7 systems can locate their primary IT operations in one center and establish a data recovery center enough to reduce the risk of a geographic disaster impacting both sites, but close enough to ensure operational or customer data is always available.The new facility will offer 25,000 square feet of initial capacity with the ability to grow to 100,000 square feet. IBM has designed and delivered more than 1,000 similar modular data centers for customers around the world. The modular data center design uses small increments of standardized components to meet business needs with IT requirements and only add data center capacity when needed. Modular centers can be developed in half the time of a traditional data center to easily accommodate growing demand. They help customers save up to 30 percent per year in energy costs compared to traditional centers.
This new addition to the existing network of 17 data centers in Canada strengthens IBM $ 75 million investment by the company in Markham and data centers based in Montreal in 2011.
