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For Logiq the decision to go with a cloud-based provider of IT infrastructure as a service (IaaS) was a matter of cost and flexibility.
A start-up that began operations in 2006, the Toronto-based life reinsurance management firm could not afford to build and staff a data center from scratch, according to David Westgate, Logiq³'s vice president of technology. So Logiq³ instead chose cloud computing and managed IT services provider BlueLock LLC to handle its data needs in the cloud.
BlueLock's virtualized environment allowed data and volumes to move between systems in a dynamic, low-cost way that would be impossible with a traditional, hosted environment, Westgate says.
