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* SAVVIS INC. wants to be a "major force" in the Canadian data centre hosting market and will continue to invest in the Greater Toronto Area.
The pledge was made by Sawis CEO Jim Ousley just hours after his company closed its US$121-million acquisition of Toronto-based managed hosting and collocation provider Fusepoint Inc. last month. With its purchase, the St. Louis-based cloud hosting provider will take over Fusepoint data centre facilities in Mississauga, Ont., Montreal and Vancouver.
"We came to Canada to be a major force in the market and I spent time today listening to the (Fusepoint) management team and the marketing team talk about future opportunities," Ousley said. "Clearly, that would involve expansion."
After the buy was first announced earlier in June, Mark Schnitt, director of strategic sourcing at IDC Canada Ltd., said that Fusepoint is a very good purchase for Sawis, but warned that the company's Toronto area...