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Cloud initiatives and investment announcements in Canada are starting to heat up with our own recent plug declaring our $20 million investment in data center expansion and deployment of a dual data center, multi-tenant cloud solution, aimed at the mid-large enterprise space. As competition starts to heat up it will be interesting to see which providers have the breadth of offering and depth of support capabilities to deliver on the promises of what the cloud can tantalizingly offer to an enterprise organization.

Not surprisingly, Canadian demand is a few years behind the American market in terms of the adoption of multi-tenant cloud solutions, although private cloud environments have thrived for years, launching mission-critical applications in a shared compute model has seen a “wait and see” approach.  I think we have seen a shift in the tide as concerns of performance, availability and security have for the most part been addressed by the hardware providers that deliver the underlying technology and we have seen an evolution from test and dev on the cloud to new and critical applications being run in a multi-tenant environment.