Designing and operating our own data centre locations means that we have the flexibility to customize solutions for our clients. We have the experience and technical expertise that allows us to leverage our investment and bring affordable solutions to market.
We have data centres in multiple locations and support operations in Kanata, Ontario and Toronto, Ontario. Customers can be confident that all data and information resides securely within our data centres, ensuring compliance with Canadian regulations. GridWay is 100% Canadian with no foreign or US ownership.
Gridway also wholly owns the Ottawa Cloud Computing Data Centre with its own unique infrastructure and flexible operations where we offer hosted Infrastructure as a Service, Private Cloud and Colocation Services.
All of our data centers are:
- Secure Tier 2 or Tier 3 data centers with 24/7 support
- Controlled with secure access and fully monitored
- High performance while also lowering energy costs
- Highly available environments with no single point of failure
- Reliable with UPS and Managed Power Distribution
- High-Availability with Precision Cooling for Operational Efficiency
- Scalable with simplified designs for intelligent growth
- Monitored with Infrastructure management capabilities
Hosted Infrastructure
- Redundant clustered network switches and routers
- Clustered Dell and HP servers deliver maximum uptime and maintainability
- Hyper-V and VMWare hypervisors
- Allows for incremental capacity upgrades
- Facilitates disaster recovery with full VM or granular restore
- Enterprise level backup systems with offsite protections
- Redundant network fibre connections from multiple Tier 1 carriers
- Automatic failure and load balancing
- Monitored Alarm system with multiple fire, water, temperature, window and door sensors
- Internal security cameras
- Fire Suppression Systems
- Escorted client access with separate work area for staging and repairs
Migration and Remote Services
- Migration and integration services are available through our expert technical team
- Remote hands services available to relieve the day-to-day demands of your experienced IT team and freeing them to focus on the more strategic areas of your operations. Remote Hands services can be the most efficient and cost-effective way to take care of certain tasks and allocate your staff resources and IT budget
Operations Centre
- 24 x 7 data centre and hosted services support
- Staffed by fully qualified technical staff
- Real time monitoring and alerts
- Network and environmental
- Room, system, and water temperature
- Humidity
- Power monitoring – Data centre, rack, PDU and branch level
- Application and network resources, bandwidth, queue length