{"id":446,"date":"2016-04-02T13:49:09","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/industry\/2016\/04\/02\/the-trusted-cloud-a-canadian-milestone\/"},"modified":"2016-04-02T13:49:09","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:49:09","slug":"the-trusted-cloud-a-canadian-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/industry\/blog\/uncategorized\/2016\/04\/02\/the-trusted-cloud-a-canadian-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"The Trusted Cloud: A Canadian Milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Microsoft announced plans to launch\u00a0two new <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/EuxmIVoP_Bw\" target=\"_blank\">Canadian datacenters<\/a>. On March 14th, we celebrated a new milestone: select Microsoft Canadian customers and partners\u00a0have begun\u00a0an operational preview of Microsoft Azure cloud in local cloud regions.\u00a0This milestone marks the start of a significant expansion of Microsoft&#8217;s trusted cloud services into Canada, and\u00a0represents a major leap forward\u00a0for banks, governments and others who need to know exactly where their data sits.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ve collected some of our favourite coverage of this event below &#8211; check out how these select customers are benefiting from the Canadian Cloud:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.channelbuzz.ca\/2016\/03\/microsoft-canadian-customers-partners-begin-operational-preview-canada-based-azure-cloud-16847\/?wt=2&amp;utm_source=website&amp;utm_campaign=wordtwit&amp;utm_medium=web\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft Canadian customers, partners begin operational preview of Canadian Azure cloud<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.computerdealernews.com\/news\/microsoft-opens-made-in-canada-azure-to-reseller-partners\/47004\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft opens made-in-Canada Azure to reseller partners<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/veritasinc.us11.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=1e7bed3128b1af8743ff36fe8&amp;id=8e38a26027&amp;e=c5012f99e4\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft opens cloud services to select Canadian clients with new data centres<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/article\/microsoft-begins-rollout-of-azure-cloud-services-hosted-in-canada\/381607\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft begins rollout of Azure cloud services hosted in Canada<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.itworldcanada.com\/article\/microsoft-begins-rollout-of-azure-cloud-services-hosted-in-canada\/381607\" target=\"_blank\">Microsoft launches Azure preview in Germany and Canada, announces DoD-specific regions in U.S.<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Learn more about how Microsoft is accelerating the\u00a0Canadian Cloud, visit our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.microsoft.com\/en-ca\/web\/datacentre\/press-release.aspx?xd=386585&amp;cr_cc=200656733\">datacentre website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last year, Microsoft announced plans to launch\u00a0two new Canadian datacenters. 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