COUNTRY FOCUS : CANADA
Virtual Data Corp ( VDC ), a Canadian managed services and hosting provider , switched to Infinidat , bypassing the solid state array technology it was originally expecting to invest in , and achieved many benefits . These included the ability to significantly differentiate its offering as a hosting provider , deliver a much higher value level of customer service and benefit from 100 % storage uptime over the past two years since using the Infinibox platform . This high availability enabled VDC to consolidate multiple arrays into a single rack for easier management and cost savings without any disruption .
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Saskatchewan River , Saskatoon , Canada .
Versatility and reliability have become the calling card of Virtual Data Corp ( VDC ), based in Saskatoon , the largest city in the Canadian province of Saskatchewan . VDC is an IT solutions provider specializing in managed cloud hosting solutions , but its commitment to customer service and its knack for problem-solving have endeared it to its customer base as an all-in-one solutions provider .
Today , a multitude of organizations located in Canada , the US and around the world rely on VDC for effective and efficient full-service hosting solutions , including public or private cloud hosting , cloud backup , managed colocation , Disaster Recovery and a variety of other IT needs .
VDC has high-quality , state-of-the-art data centers located in Saskatoon and Regina , as well as an experienced team supporting a vast array of enterpriselevel services that small to medium-sized businesses need . This has fuelled VDC ’ s fast growth and utilization of virtualization technology and VMware solutions for its capabilities of providing hosting , managed services , VPN hosted firewall services and website hosting . Critical to VDC ’ s business is data storage .
Growth can be challenging
As a growing company , VDC was always looking for upgrades in terms of SAN storage . “ We came to the realization that if we wanted to truly grow to the next
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