Cloud Hosting

Secure, Public, Private and Hybrid Cloud Solutions Now Available across Three Geographically Dispersed Datacenters

Vancouver, BC (PRWEB) October 02, 2012

The Vancouver, British Columbia facility is the third North American Hostway datacenter to come online in less than two years since the company launched its hosted cloud solution in 2010. The company intends to continue expanding its footprint, as worldwide demand for reliable, enterprise-grade managed services continues to grow. In fact, according to IDC, the market for public IT cloud services in Canada exceeded half a billion dollars in 2011, with the SaaS segment leading the way. The market is expected to continue rapid growth, with IDC predicting nearly 30 percent CAGR over the next four years.

Using a Vancouver-based cloud allows Canadian customers to store data under the purview of Canadas Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), as opposed to the United States Patriot Act. This also gives Canadian public entities an opportunity to move to the cloud while maintaining privacy and compliance obligations.

Weve seen tremendous demand among our existing customers for a non-U.S., West Coast data center for a variety of reasons, said Mark Adolph, executive vice president and chief financial officer for Hostway. Not only is geographic diversity for disaster recovery important, but this new option also provides access for Asia-Pacific companies looking to host in North America. We also expect Canadian companies that prefer to or are required by law to host in Canada will fuel fast expansion of our Canadian cloud.

Like its Austin, Texas and Tampa, Fla. facilities, Hostways new Vancouver cloud environment offers the same industry-leading level of system administration and network support for deployment and management of its FlexCloud public and private cloud environments. The new platform also supports easy setup of a Hybrid Cloud that links Vancouver cloud resources to the customers managed, collocated, internal or existing cloud infrastructure to create a high-performance, geographically diverse, flexible hosting solution.

The Vancouver site will also be made available as part of Hostways newly launched virtual machine (VM) replication service, one of the first disaster recovery solutions of its kind providing low-cost, compliance-level cross-site and site-to-site replication on the new Windows Server 2012 Hyper-V Replica feature in the Windows Server 2012 operating system.

For more information about the Hostway Vancouver cloud, visit http://www.hostway.com.

About Hostway Corporation

Hostway Corporation is a leader in cloud, managed, and hybrid cloud hosting. Hostway delivers reliable, secure, and scalable Infrastructure-as-a-service (IaaS) solutions to over 600,000 customers worldwide. The company services its clients from more than 250,000 square feet of state-of-the-art data center space, spanning four continents and 12 countries. Hostway has emerged as one of the largest cloud hosting and IaaS providers in the world due to the companys expertise in developing secure, multi-tenant hosting environments and its commitment to providing SMBs and large enterprises with cost-effective business solutions. Core products include managed hosting, cloud hosting, hybrid hosting, and email and applications.

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