CALGARY, Alberta, Aug. 1, 2019 /PRNewswire/
-- eStruxture Data Centers, a leading Canadian provider
of carrier and cloud-neutral data center solutions, announced today
that it has signed an agreement to acquire from Shaw Communications
Inc. the assets of Shaw's Calgary-1 data center. eStruxture acquired all
contractual relationships residing in the facility and the existing
operational and sales teams. The addition of Shaw's Calgary facility complements eStruxture's
existing portfolio of five data centers in Vancouver and Montreal. Terms of the transaction were not
disclosed.
"We're excited to announce the acquisition of the newest, most
state-of-the-art data center in Calgary, and welcome Shaw's existing data
center employees and customers to eStruxture," says Todd Coleman, President and CEO of eStruxture.
"This acquisition furthers our strategy of becoming the leading
cloud and carrier neutral provider in Canada. We are committed to keep pushing to
deliver more for our customers - more capacity, more locations, and
more cloud and network connections."
As part of the transaction, both companies have entered into a
multi-year agreement that will see Shaw maintain a wholesale
relationship with eStruxture and continue to resell colocation
services through the Calgary-1
data center to further supplement Shaw's portfolio of connectivity
services.
"We are pleased to work with such an innovative and dynamic
Canadian company that will allow Shaw Business to nurture
relationships with new and existing clients, while providing our
teams with a strong data center partner to sell services through
and best support our customers," says Katherine Emberly, President, Business, Brand
and Communications at Shaw. "eStruxture's customer-centric and
entrepreneurial culture aligns perfectly with our business and we
are excited to establish this wholesale relationship to help better
serve our customers in Western
Canada."
The first phase of the Shaw data center was commissioned in
August 2015 and awarded Uptime
Institute Tier III Design and Construction certification. The
65,000 square foot facility can accommodate robust power densities
up to 30kW per cabinet. Built with sustainability and efficiency in
mind, the data center is highly energy efficient, made possible by
the next generation, free air-cooling system deployed. With
existing SSAE16/CSAE 3416 SOC2 certification, the location is
audit-ready and adheres to the controls of several other rigorous
compliance standards. eStruxture will focus on expanding the
Calgary data center's rich
ecosystem of network service providers and cloud onramps. The
facility has significant pre-deployed capacity that is
customer-ready, and can be further expanded in a rapid timeline to
support future growth.
To learn more about eStruxture, visit www.estruxture.com.
About eStruxture:
eStruxture provides network and cloud-neutral data center
solutions designed with the capacity, performance and flexibility
to run modern, demanding enterprise applications, and the control
to rapidly scale in response to unpredictable changes in business
processes. Headquartered in Montréal, the company provides access
to an ecosystem of over 900 customers that trust and depend on
eStruxture's mission critical infrastructure and customer-centric
support, including carriers, cloud providers, media, content,
financial services and enterprise customers. eStruxture offers
colocation, private cloud, managed services, bandwidth, and
security and support services to customers of all sizes.
For more information, visit www.estruxture.com, and follow us on
Twitter @estruxture and LinkedIn
https://www.linkedin.com/company/estruxture/
About Shaw Communications Inc.
Shaw Communications Inc. is a leading Canadian connectivity
company. The Wireline division consists of Consumer and Business
services. Consumer serves residential customers with broadband
Internet, Shaw Go WiFi, video and digital phone. Business provides
business customers with Internet, data, WiFi, digital phone and
video services. The Wireless division provides wireless voice and
LTE data services through an expanding and improving mobile
wireless network infrastructure.
Shaw is traded on the Toronto
and New York stock exchanges and
is included in the S&P/TSX 60 Index (Symbol: TSX - SJR.B,
SJR.PR.A, SJR.PR.B, NYSE – SJR, and TSXV – SJR.A). For more
information, please visit www.shaw.ca.
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