State-of-the-art data centers in Canada
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Todd Coleman, eStruxture’s President and CEO, explains how the company is leveraging its knowledge of the Canadian market for data center excellence
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anada’s eStruxture provides carrier and cloud neutral data center service across the country. The company is
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acquired its first facility in Calgary and its second in Vancouver, as well as upgrading existing facilities in Montreal and Vancouver. Behind the company’s success is its keen attention to the specificities of the Canadian market, as Todd Coleman, President and CEO, explains: “What sets us apart from other data center providers is our 100% focus on the Canadian region, our ability to serve a multitude of markets and our willingness and ability to pre-deploy capacity to enable our customers to quickly deploy, even up to multiple mega-watts, in our state-of-the-art facilities. We are Canadian owned and headquartered, and focus entirely on our region. Our mindset is not diluted with other out-of-region markets; we know how to get things done in the markets in which we operate, we believe in local customer touch at the
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Number of employees
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“ Our goal has always been to become the leading data center provider in Canada” — Todd Coleman, President and CEO, eStruxture
and foreign ownership issues increase, we are very sensitive to the Canadian regulatory landscape and how that may impact our customers.” eStruxture’s portfolio of data centers may be growing, but expansion is always carefully and responsibly considered. “We have a unique set of requirements that we look for in target acquisitions particularly around the facilities, requiring Tier III, concurrently maintainable architecture, redundancy across the electrical and mechanical systems, access to incremental utility
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building, formerly a Montreal Gazette
and massively scalable power distribu-
printing facility. “We are confident that
tion within the facility up to 30kW per
this facility is the most scalable, state-
rack,” says Coleman. “The Calgary
of-the-art carrier-neutral facility in
acquisition checked all of our boxes
Quebec – and quite likely all of Canada,”
on the technical requirements and
says Coleman. “We considered every
included highly skilled employees and
detail of the design, architecture,
an expanded customer base. With this
equipment selection and operating
acquisition, eStruxture has positioned
model to enable us to serve our retail
itself as the largest carrier-neutral data
and wholesale customers in ways that
center provider in the market.”
are unique to the Canadian data center
The company is also constructing
industry. The facility was designed
brand new, state-of-the-art facilities in
around the fundamental tenet of high
Montreal and Vancouver. The former,
scalability, efficiency and sustain-
MTL-2, is situated in a repurposed
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immediately available, hydro-electric
the area. “We announced earlier this
power; utilisation of free-cooling up
year the development of a new, 55,000
to 8 months a year; a power utilisation
square feet, 10MW data center in
efficiency that is designed for sub-1.2
Burnaby, just on the edge of the City
at load; the latest lithium battery, UPS
of Vancouver. This facility is being
technology; scalable and flexible power
designed and architected around the
configurations that support up to 30kW
basis of design we have developed for
per cabinet and 2N redundancy; and
our MTL-2 facility with focus on scale,
pre-deployed and built-out capacity
flexibility, efficiency and sustainability.
that allows us to deploy a multi-mega-
We are confident that this state-of-
watt customer in less than 90 days.�
the-art facility will be a game changer
The latter, Vancouver facility is being
for the Vancouver market offering
developed to take advantage of the
substantial expansion capabilities for
underserved data center market in
our retail and wholesale customers
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E XE CU T I VE PRO FI LE
Todd Coleman Todd Coleman is the President and CEO of eStruxture. Todd brings more than 25 years’ experience in the IT, data center and telecommunications industries. Most recently, he was the Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of Cologix. Todd has also held several senior positions at Level 3 Communications, a global telecommunications company, including Senior Vice President of Data Centers, Senior Vice President of Media Operations and President of Level 3 Communications Europe. Todd holds a juris doctorate and a bachelor’s degree in computer information systems.
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“What sets us apart from other data center providers is our 100% focus on the Canadian market” — Todd Coleman, President and CEO, eStruxture
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with dedicated fiber access to our VAN-1 facility as well as the downtown Vancouver carrier hotel.” eStruxture ensures that a focus on sustainability is built into its facilities from the earliest design stage. “From a design perspective, our engineers work to design and develop the most energy efficient data center possible,” says Coleman. “We are constantly challenging to drive to the highest efficiency possible. Additionally, the customer IT and server equipment produces a significant amount of
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“ Our engineers work to design and develop the most energy efficient data center possible” — Todd Coleman, President and CEO, eStruxture
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• Constructing facilities in Montreal and Vancouver • In the last year, has acquired data centers in Calgary and Vancouver
heat that we strive to re-use through heat exchangers, either in our own building through uses like heating our office space and/or by providing 14
it to other adjacent buildings or businesses.” It’s also about making sure facilities run as efficiently as possible, with ramifications from both a business and sustainability perspective. “A traditional data center has total energy expenditure for cooling alone of 50% or more of critical IT load – sometimes significantly higher. In eStruxture’s case, we were able to achieve a yearly average power saving of about 70% through the use of air flow management, CFD analysis and air side economisers, allowing us to benefit from the lower ambient temperatures in Canada that enable us to achieve up to eight months per year of free cooling.”
eStruxture is confident in the path it is taking, while keeping an eye on upcoming industry trends such as edge computing. “With new technologies like AI and autonomous vehicles rapidly gaining traction, companies are beginning to need much more powerful and local compute, storage and networking resources than most current data center providers are used to deploying,” says Coleman. “As a result, interest in facilities located outside of traditional Tier 1 data center markets will continue to surge. “Our goal has always been to become the leading data center provider in Canada, and we will continue to strive for that superlative,” he adds. “We will continue to expand, both into new markets and within our existing markets, and we will continue to be sure our customers have state-of-the-art technology at their fingertips all while receiving white glove customer service.”
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