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B.C. hatches $100-million deal with EAS and Q9

13.04.2009
Q9 Networks Inc. will build and operate a new data centre in Kamloops, BC as part of a 15-year data centre service agreement with EDS Advanced Solutions (EAS) Inc., a subsidiary of EDS Canada Inc.

Valued at over C$100 million (US$81.6 million), the agreement will also provide EAS with capacity in Q9's new Calgary data centre scheduled to open this summer.

EAS will use the two Q9 data centre facilities to support a separate 12-year contract valued at approximately $586 million between EAS and the British Columbia Ministry of Labour and Citizens' Services.

Under this latter agreement, EAS will be responsible for consolidating, standardizing and managing computing, information storage and data centre operations across the province.

Q9's data centres will house the provincial servers and mainframes, but EAS will manage the services in those data centres, explained Al Hurd, vice-president of EDS Canada.

EAS outsourced to Q9 because the province wanted their primary data centre to be located in B.C. "We as EDS or HP didn't have a facility in B.C. and the requirements of the province didn't warrant the construction of a whole data centre," said Hurd.