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like C151, there’s no question that data is
being stored in Canada and is being pro-
tected by Canadian laws.
“What we can state unequivocally, how-
ever, is that the data you store with us is in
Canada. You put it with a large cloud pro-
vider, such as AWS or Azure, you have no
idea. It’s all about risk assessment and risk
mitigation,” MacDonald said. “Depending
on the type of information being stored,
companies and their boards should be very
concerned about where company data is
being stored and who can access it. Stor-
age in the Cloud doesn’t allow you do that
with certainty. Storing data in Canada, on
dedicated servers in a secure data centre,
can provide companies with certainty con-
cerning laws governing third party acces-
sibility to that data.”
Growth is on the horizon for C151, particu-
larly as the sheer volume of data world-
wide continues to increase. Over the next
five years, MacDonald would like to see
the C151 Toronto location substantially
filled and expand to other major centres
across Canada, such as Vancouver and Ot-
tawa, whether through acquisition or new
build.
“With the growth of Cloud, Internet of
Things, massive amounts of data are ex-
pected to be generated over the next 10
years. That data, the Cloud, all lives on
infrastructure, sitting in a data centre like
ours, somewhere in world,” Damiani said.
For more information about C151 Data
Centers Inc., visit
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centers.com.
