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Breaking News - Storage:
Storage Grid To Be Launched Within TELUS Data Center
PhotoChannel Networks Inc and TELUS, the largest telecommunications company in
Western Canada and the second largest in the country, announced the next step
in its ongoing partnership to enhance the digital photo customer experience by
expanding innovative network solutions for photofinishing services.
British Columbia-based PhotoChannel's partnership with TELUS will now provide
retailers and consumers with secure storage and full power and bandwidth
redundancy for PhotoChannel's innovative digital photo network at the TELUS
data center in Burnaby. In conjunction with this hosting relocation,
PhotoChannel will be migrating its customers onto its new PhotoChannel Storage
Grid.
The use of Grid technology is taking off in numerous industries, and experts
and vendors from all over will be on hand at Gt'04, May 24-26 in Philadelphia,
to assist companies in putting Grid computing to work for them. More
information can be obtained at www.gt04.com .
"TELUS has been involved as an investor and business partner with PhotoChannel
for almost two years," said Mark Schnarr, executive vice president of
corporate development at TELUS. "The rapidly expanding adoption of
PhotoChannel's digital photo finishing solution in the marketplace is a
testament to the need for using innovative technology to bring user-friendly
online solutions to customers. We are excited to expand our partnership with
PhotoChannel and to showcase these solutions through TELUS' world class data
center."
"Since December 2003, we have been proactively developing the PhotoChannel
Storage Grid, a Grid-based storage solution for digital image photo files,
based on computing solutions now sweeping the high tech industry," said Peter
Scarth, CEO of PhotoChannel. "We have chosen to partner with TELUS and use its
Burnaby facility to help meet the growing needs of our customers, including
Canada's largest photofinishers such as Wal-Mart Canada. Together, this
exciting new platform will allow us to scale in an efficient and cost
effective manner, while offering our customers the most reliable solution in
the marketplace."
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