For Savoie partnering with IBM allowed his company to provide identical, local and customer-specific deployments for global clients regardless of location.

Marc Jones, SoftLayer’s CTO, said Canada is an important market for IBM Cloud services and this new facility will provide regional customers with the security, resiliency, and scalability for placing demanding workloads in the cloud.

The new cloud centre offers the full-range of SoftLayer and IBM Cloud infrastructure services, including bare metal servers, virtual servers, storage, security services and networking. These services can be deployed on-demand with full remote access and control through a customer Web portal or API, allowing customers to create their ideal public, private or hybrid cloud environments.

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