Key results of new report assessing data centre operations vendors in Canada

The new report assesses Canadian data centre providers' ability to help Canadian companies migrate from corporate-run, on-premise facilities to 3rd party centres and hybrid environments, in addition to a vendor's facility features.

• Go distinguished themselves by placing in the Major Players category.
• Over the past three years, Canada has seen a build out of over one million square feet of data centre space, and well in excess of 100MW of power added to the market.

Over the past 24 months, the needs of a data centre have continued to increase. Data generated from corporate systems, mobile devices, and Internet of Things (IoT) networks continue to grow at a pace of 50% per year. Digital technologies such as analytics, social business platforms, and high performance computing put an ever-increasing stress on the best-in-class data centres.