OVHcloud locks in on second Canadian data center hub and invests $145 million in Toronto
Global cloud provider OVHcloud has announced the opening of a second Canadian data center facility, making this the Group’s 42nd to date. Supported by a long-term investment of CAD 145 million (roughly $107.4 million), the new data center hub is located in Cambridge, Ontario, a first for the company in the area.
The company’s new Toronto facility will be accessible to OVHcloud US customers and will deliver improved latency compared to the existing OVHcloud data center near Montreal and the OVHcloud US data center in Vint Hill, Virginia.
OVHcloud has been established in Canada since 2011, where it employs 250 people and operates 90,000 servers located on Montreal’s South Shore, according to the company.
Located in the Ascent TOR1 hyperscale development, the company reveals that the new data center has a surface area of 1,000 m2, a capacity of 10,000 servers and 2 megawatts of power. The facility has water-cooling technology and OVHcloud builds its own servers – up to 600 a week in its Beauharnois plant.
Speaking about the new data center hub, Estelle Azemard, vice president Americas at OVHcloud, says: “This new data center marks a major turning point in the history of OVHcloud in Canada, enabling our customers and businesses in the Toronto area to strengthen their infrastructure while retaining full control of their cloud journey, free from any form of technological or pricing lock-in. We’re also looking forward to making a difference by continuing to innovate for a sustainable digital environment.”
Additionally, the company notes that the new data center is suited to companies requiring a second, geographically-distant Canadian data center to deploy their backup or disaster recovery solution. OVHcloud’s own network is connected to several points of presence (PoPs) in Montreal and Toronto, and more than 40 worldwide.
Available in the Cambridge data center, OVHcloud lists key features of the facility including dedicated servers for mission-critical workloads, and an object storage solution compatible with the S3 API.
The facility is powered by the latest AMD and Intel processors, and network and connectivity options such as Additional IP for application flexibility, and Load Balancer for load balancing across multiple data centers, is available.
The company also claims that the Ascent TOR data center has low latency to the greater Toronto region.
In 2024, the private cloud solution leveraging VMware by Broadcom will be added, in a bid to offer additional options for companies that want to boost their level of resilience by activating Veeam or Zerto virtualized solutions in a dedicated environment.
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