IBM - often known as Big Blue - has won a Shared Services Canada (SSC) contract for the Government of Canada Data Center. The corporation has been engaged to manage data center space for the Canadian government's “Data Center Consolidation Initiative”.
With headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States, IBM is a global software and hardware giant whose services include infrastructure, hosting and consulting services. It has recently been in the news for its focus on ‘Big Data’ services featuring its ‘Watson’ supercomputer. The corporation’s public cloud processes in excess of 5.5 million client transactions per day. The corporation caters to 30,000 clients globally and has been present in Canada for more than 35 years. It operates 19 existing data centers in the country.
"There's never been a more important time for industry and government to share best-practices as Canada continues this important transformation and adapts to new trends like cloud, big data, mobile and social computing," explained IBM's Director, Federal Public Sector Business in Canada, David Anthony. "We are very pleased to have been selected to deliver modern data centre space so the Government of Canada can establish the IT backbone to provide Canadians with continuous connectivity to the services they need as the government transforms to a model that can securely evolve at the pace of today's digital world."
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