Canadian Web Hosting, Green Data Centre Offer Joyent SmartDataCenter in Canada
Canadian Web Hosting, Green Data Centre Offer Joyent SmartDataCenter in Canada
- By Liam Eagle, January 04, 2012
(WEB HOST INDUSTRY REVIEW) -- Web hosting provider Canadian Web Hosting announced on Wednesday that it had partnered with Canadian data center operator Green Data Centre Inc. to distribute Joyent’s SmartDataCenter product to Canadian Web Hosting’s softwar as a service clients in Canada, enabling them to access a more flexible range of cloud computing offerings.
SmartDataCenter is Joyent’s cloud infrastructure stack, a cloud platform the company says is optimized “at every level” for service providers.
While it isn’t completely explained in the press release, the implication seems to be that Green Data Centre is supplier of data center space to Canadian Web Hosting, and has assisted the company in deploying the Joyent platform. The release also suggests that the Canadian Web Hosting cloud products will be available to GDC customers.
"With the SmartDataCenter platform, we are able to control access to our pool of resources and better manage timing, throughput and latency giving that helps us deliver an elevated quality of service because of the amount of control we can give our customers. Working with Canadian Web Hosting, we are able to deploy faster and more robust clouds when compared to other cloud products on the market. Our customers now have a competitive advantage," says Emerich Winkler, CEO of Green Data Centre Inc., quoted in the press release.
The end result of the work, however, is that the companies have reduced the time it takes to deliver Joyent-based cloud services to clients, and reduced deployment costs by more than 50 percent. Canadian Web Hosting says it worked directly with Joyent, as well as with GDC, to deploy SmartDataCenter in line with its CICA 5970 and SAS70 Type II credentials to ensure the solution met the compliance requirements of its customers.
CWH says it now offers cloud solutions based on Microsoft’s Hyper-v, VMware, Citrix Xen and now Joyent’s SmartDataCenter.
"Cloud computing can be a simple web-based application available to customers online, or an array of high powered servers capable of processing thousands of transactions for customers worldwide. The only constant for our customers is the cloud itself. In reviewing the broad types of cloud infrastructures required by our customers, and their primary business functions, SmartDataCenter represents a perfect combination of flexibility and performance,” says Matt McKinney, managing director at Canadian Web Hosting, quoted in the press release.
Based in Nova Scotia, Canada, Green Data Centre, Inc. says it works to be a leader in the Canadian market when it comes to deploying green information and communications technology, and to promote environmental responsibility.