Support my cloud strategy with the Bell network and data centres

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If you are looking for a cloud solution, there are three things you need to be absolutely sure of:

Availability
Performance
Security

How do you do this? You need to ask the right questions. Find out where data centres are located, and what hosting, systems and storage capabilities you can access. Ask about security measures. Learn about the network that will deliver your applications and information. And make sure you do a comprehensive examination of a provider's service level agreements (SLAs) from end tend.

At Bell, our peerless network capabilities and data centres mean we are in a position to answer any questions you have about supporting your cloud.

Guaranteed performance from Bell

Bell is the only provider in Canada to guarantee end-to-end application security and performance – in data centres and over the network. That is all the security, performance and availability you need for a successful cloud deployment.

Bell data centres

Watch our video to find out why Bell data centres are Canada's leading hosting locations, and the best way to support your cloud.

Our data centres:

Are owned and located in Canada
Offer class-leading infrastructure, redundancy and availability
Have CICA 5970 Type II certification (equivalent to US SAS 70 Type II)

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The Bell tier 1 network

Unmatched by any other Canadian provider, the Bell network goes to extremes to support your cloud implementation. Here is what you should know about our network:

Largest Canadian IP/MPLS footprint
Rated #1 MPLS network in North America
SAS70 certified
Carries 80 percent of Canada's Internet traffic
Processes 90 percent of Canadian debit/credit
Provides and manages more than 1 million IP connections
Serves 90 percent of Canada's top 1,000 businesses
Achieves availability of more than 99.999 percent
Offers end-to-end, national SLAs on the metrics that matter:
- Latency
- Packet loss
- Jitter

Bell cloud professional services

As a proven leader in network and hosting services, Bell brings extensive knowledge and experience to the cloud. With 5,000 technicians and 3,000 network engineers, Bell employees have the most industry certifications in Canada. And our professional services experts can be with you wherever you are in the cloud, supporting your project from start to finish.

Bell can help

Bell is the partner of choice for prominent cloud computing players across infrastructure, software and services. Not only can we help simplify your IT and increase your ROI, but we can also offer the levels of security, performance and availability that are critical in the cloud.

If you would like to learn more, contact your sales representative or request that a Bell representative contact you.