Toronto, Ontario – March 11, 2013 – Centrilogic, a trusted provider of international hybrid hosting and data center solutions, today announced the acquisition of Canadian managed hosting and IT services provider The Capris Group.
The Capris Group’s business, founded in 1996, will be combined with Centrilogic’s existing data center solutions to create a new business unit focused on delivering Application and Platform management services to new and current customers. Centrilogic will also add additional data center and disaster recovery space to its existing infrastructure footprint in the Greater Toronto Area. The strategic acquisition of The Capris Group places Centrilogic in a unique market position, providing innovative cross-border Hybrid Hosting, Business Continuity / Disaster Recovery, and DevOps solutions to local and international organizations with enterprise-class workloads.
Robert Offley, Centrilogic’s President and CEO commented, “The Capris Group’s team has 17 years of experience delivering comprehensive services to its entire client base, including several of Canada’s major financial institutions that have stringent uptime and service delivery requirements. We will leverage The Capris Group’s existing expertise to better fulfill our customer’s complex hosting and application management requirements, ultimately creating synergies throughout our core service offerings to facilitate the growth of our business locally and internationally.”
Centrilogic will integrate into its current offerings The Capris Group’s entire portfolio of services, including Application & Platform Management, Managed Hosting, Development, and Co-Location. Other assets acquired by Centrilogic include The Capris Group’s staff, its existing office and data center facilities, and all current customer contracts.
“Centrilogic has quickly established itself as a flexible and reliable provider of international data center solutions, with a very strong presence in the Greater Toronto Area and an excellent track record of delivering outstanding services to organizations with enterprise-class requirements,” said Boris Novosel, President of The Capris Group. “We have been actively seeking opportunities to take our company to the next level, and after a thorough evaluation of numerous candidates we determined that Centrilogic was the ideal partner to help us achieve this goal.”
Centrilogic will maintain The Capris Group’s 15,000 square foot data center and Disaster Recovery area in Mississauga, Ontario. This facility will be used to service The Capris Group’s existing customer base while also accommodating new and existing Centrilogic customers.