ISM Canada, a Regina-based subsidiary of IBM
Cloud computing can be tricky to explain since it’s so nebulous, but it is being used today by both large corporations and regular people.
Azure Stack is like Google Drive or Apple iCloud, except it’s for much more than backing up your wedding photos. The service is for organizations to privately store data and applications. Instead of investing in their own hardware, organizations can use the Azure Stack for a substantially cheaper price.
“It’s secure, and it’s low-cost and it’s easy to access from anywhere,” said ISM Canada CEO Mark MacLeod while speaking to reporters after the announcement, held at the University of Regina’s Innovation Place building.
The Azure Stack is a hybrid cloud platform that allows companies to access cloud-based tools without having to move their data into the cloud. MacLeod said the service can easily scale to support large or small businesses. Clients are charged based on how much data or processing they consume.
