July 08, 2024 Canada
The Canadian Telecommunications Association (CTA) has called for tougher measures to deter the theft of copper cables as related crimes have increased by an estimated 200% each year from 2021 to 2023.“It’s something we’ve seen over the past couple of years, quite a substantial increase in...
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June 06, 2024 Canada
The federal and provincial governments of Canada has announced plans to invest CA$16.4m (US$12m) in Arbutus Research Cloud; the largest cloud computing site for academic research in Canada, for its supercomputer infrastructure.“Cloud computing accelerates the speed of research and streamlines...
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May 03, 2024 Canada
Candian monitoring service provider Armstrongs has unveiled a critical event monitoring data center will provide a primary home in Canada for all the receivers and storage of subscribers' data in Laval, Quebec. From this new campus, Amstrongs will be able to provide dedicated video monitoring and...
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April 26, 2024 Canada
Nuclear small modular reactor (SMR) company Terrestrial Energy has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Schneider Electric to jointly develop commercial opportunities and advance the deployment of IMSR plants as the reactor company is currently developing a 190MWe Integral Molten Salt...
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March 22, 2024 Canada
Canadian telco Rogers Communications has blamed its recent outage on a fiber optic cable cut between Guelph and Brampton after a crash knocked down traffic lights and wires, which happened at Claire Rd W and Gordon St in Guelph. “Customers in parts of Guelph and surrounding areas may be...
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March 18, 2024 Canada
Exaion, an EDF Group subsidiary specializing in the development and operation of ‘eco-responsible digital services platforms,’ recently announced the opening of its data center in Sherbrooke, Canada. This facility called Bellevue, is located in the Humano District project, to which it will...
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February 27, 2024 Canada
Modine this week announced it had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire the Calgary, Alberta-based manufacturer of air handling units (AHU), Scott Springfield Manufacturing. Modine mentioned that it will gain ‘immediate access to a highly complementary product portfolio and a blue-chip...
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July 21, 2023 Canada
Moveworks has announced that its first regional data center in Canada has opened, a move which the company said signifies its move toward promoting greater data center privacy and residency, in line with the evolving regulatory landscape in Canada. The company noted that data privacy is a...
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July 19, 2023 Canada
Spencer Building Carrier Hotel has shared that it has obtained the permits to begin work on its new data center in the heritage section of Vancouver's Harbour Centre. The company shared that the project is still in its preconstruction phase, but that construction will commence in August 2023,...
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June 22, 2023 Toronto
Grain Management and StratCap bought a data center on the Canadian outskirts of Toronto. This week, the firms announced the formation of a joint venture to purchase 55 Hereford Street in Brampton, Ontario. The terms of the transaction were not disclosed, but per the joint venture contract,...
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May 02, 2023 Montreal
Wiz has announced the launch of its new cloud data center in Montreal, Canada. The facility is to provide local and multinational organizations with faster, and more secure cloud security infrastructure and is also pegged to provide greater data sovereignty, while maintaining privacy...
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April 25, 2023 Toronto
Leading cloud provider Serverspace is pleased to announce the installation of hardware in an innovative data center in Toronto, Canada. With current facilities in five other nations, this facility represents Serverspace's sixth international location. The new data center's equipment is kept in a...
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April 19, 2023 Canada
A five-year agreement between the Canadian government and the Swedish vendor Ericsson will see more than $351 million invested in two research and development facilities in Ottawa, Ontario, and Montreal, Quebec. To enhance mobile networks, the investment will concentrate on 5G Advanced, 6G, Cloud...
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March 09, 2023 Canada
Acronis has announced the availability of its new Cyber Cloud data center in Toronto, Canada, adding to its global network, which includes a total of fifty locations, including the U.S., U.K., Switzerland, France, Germany, Japan, Australia, Singapore, and other regions. The company has outlined...
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January 20, 2023 Canada
ManageEngine has announced that it has opened two new Canadian data centers in Toronto and Montreal in order to offer Canadian customers, what it called, the benefits of localized data centers. This move is also reportedly in response to tightening privacy regulations across the world, with the...
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November 25, 2022 Ottawa
Canadian real estate company Regional Group has acquired a data center and office complex in Ottawa, Canada. The property it acquired is Qualicum Centre, a three-building office campus located at 2932, 2934, and 2936 Baseline Road. The selling firm is Manulife Investment Management. The terms of...
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November 02, 2022 Canada
Officials of Nanaimo city in British Columbia, Canada, have granted permission to rezone 2.3 hectares to give way for data center development. The land in question is located at 2086 and 2090 East Wellington Road. The rural area, which is primarily undeveloped, features two residential houses and...
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September 29, 2022 Montreal
Enovum Data Centers has announced that the first phase of its Montreal facility has been launched. It will soon begin its second phase. With 70,000 sqft of infrastructure and move-in space availability for a total of 187,500 sqft, the facility's first phase also has a capacity of 1.5 MW. Once...
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June 27, 2022 Canada
New research shows that while an increasing number of companies are making ambitious and climate promises and claiming they’re powered by renewable energy, many of their pledges are often exaggerated as a result of an over-reliance on Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs). RECs are received by...
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June 15, 2022 Toronto
Cloud at Work has announced the launch of a new data center in Toronto, Canada. The move sees the company expand into the Canadian market as it already has two world-class data centers in the US. According to Cloud at Work, the new facility will ensure that its customers in Canada have access to...
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