Long View Invests in Continued Toronto Growth

Long View Systems Corporation, one of North America’s providers of hybrid IT solutions and services, opened its ninth North American office in Toronto in early 2013, and has spent the better part of two years building a solid foundation in Canada’s largest city.

In an important development, Long View acquired co-location capacity in a Greater Toronto area (GTA) data centre owned and operated by Q9 Networks, Inc., in order to provide HA, hosted and managed cloud for its customers. Q9 Networks is a Canadian outsourced data centre service.

Long View’s dual cloud infrastructure in both Calgary and Toronto Q9 data centres enables them to support customers with a geographic protection OnDemand option north of the border.

“We believe this says everything about our commitment to bringing our Hybrid IT model to central Canada,” says Long View VP sales and business development, Dave Frederickson. “Q9 has an unparalleled track record for data centre solutions, in support of business-critical computing operations. By establishing capacity for our customers in a Q9 data centre, we are reaffirming our commitment to being a major player in the Toronto market. This is only the beginning.“

Any compromise to data integrity, availability, or security can have serious implications on a company’s productivity, stakeholder confidence, and regulatory compliance – all of which impact the bottom line. Long View’s OnDemand Hybrid IT model offers customers efficient and scalable IT solutions, including reliable backup and recovery solutions – with Q9 Networks’ data centres acknowledged as the gold standard in reliability, performance and security.

Q9 data centres are designed to support HA mission-critical computing environments. These facilities feature security standards, geographic protection, redundant high-capacity cooling systems (for reliability), and redundant onsite power generation to protect customer equipment at all times.

“We are pleased to provide Long View with the data centre capacity it needs to continue making its mark in the Toronto market,” says Q9 Senior VP sales, David Ralston. “Long View has authored a tremendous success story as a North American MSP. The security and reliability of our data centres are well known in the industry. By choosing Q9, Long View is sending a message to its present and future customers that their critical assets are well-protected.“

Long View’s Hybrid IT as a service abilities include following cloud services:

• OnDemand Infrastructure: Enterprise Grade, highly available infrastructure platform for hosting client Virtual Workloads (VM’s) in a secure multi-tenant environment.
• OnDemand Storage: Enterprise grade infrastructure platform for hosting client Virtual Storage appliances (vFiler/vServer) in a secure multi-tenant environment.
• OnDemand Backup: Cloud backup, recovery and restore solution.
• OnDemand Recovery: Volume level, point in time, replicated copy of Customer NetApp based data for long term retention, archiving, or service restoration in the event of source storage array failure.
• OnDemand Messaging: Dedicated Exchange environment running on Long View’s Secure Multi-tenant cloud platform that integrates with clients Active Directory.