October 1, 2010 – (HOSTSEARCH.COM) –
PEER 1 Hosting (TSX: PIX), a global online IT hosting provider, today announced that IBM Canada is now a PEER 1 Hosting Platinum level colocation reseller. Achieving PEER 1 Hosting’s highest channel level enables the two organizations to synergize on business and marketing plans to help ensure IBM Canada customers are successfully deploying PEER 1 Hosting solutions. Together, IBM Canada and PEER 1 Hosting will collaborate to offer enterprise customers a top tier data centre when selecting IBM managed service offerings, software and hardware.
IBM will be able to leverage all of PEER 1 Hosting’s Canadian data centres, particularly its new 40,000 square foot enterprise-class data centre in Toronto, Ontario. This US$40 million flagship data centre is the most efficient data centre PEER 1 Hosting has built to date, with increased power densities, high reliability, and robust security. IBM Canada will be utilizing the colocation services of this data centre to offer the necessary space and power for select IBM Canada customers to store and protect their information.
“We are very excited to be working with IBM Canada,” said Russell Griffin, Channel Sales Manager, PEER 1 Hosting. “Together we have the resources and strength to support the hosting needs of IBM’s world class Canadian customers.”
About PEER 1 Hosting
PEER 1 Hosting is one of the world’s leading IT hosting providers. The company is built on two obsessions: Ping & People. Ping, represents its commitment to best-of-breed technology, founded on a high performance 10GB SuperNetworkTM connected by 17 state-of-the-art data centres, 21 points-of-presence and 10 colocation facilities throughout North America and Europe. People, represents its commitment to delivering outstanding customer service to its more than 10,000 customers worldwide, backed by a 100 percent uptime guarantee and 24x7x365 FirstCall Support™. PEER 1 Hosting’s portfolio includes Managed Hosting, Dedicated Servers under the ServerBeach brand, Colocation and Cloud Services. Founded in 1999, the company is headquartered in Vancouver, Canada, with European operations headquartered in Southampton, UK. PEER 1 Hosting shares are traded on the TSX under the symbol PIX.
