Canadian SMBs quicker to adopt cloud, but future is still looking a little foggy

Nov 19, 2013

ETHERFAX was featured in this great article by IT Business Canada (Canadian SMBs Quicker to Adopt Cloud, but Future is Still Looking a Little Foggy):

Aside from Canadian companies, there are also some U.S. companies who are taking notice of Canadian customers’ demands. Take ETHERFAX LLC, a company that has just announced it has built a data centre in Toronto.

Based in New Jersey, ETHERFAX supports a customer’s existing fax servers to send encrypted communications through the cloud. Its solution negates the need to use a fax board, media gateways and other telephony infrastructure.

It already has a high availability data centre in the U.S. which could have served Canadian customers as well as American ones. But company president Paul Banco says he essentially put a data centre there to reach out to clients in Canada who wanted to keep their data within their own borders. However, he’s not fully convinced it matters whether a data centre is based within Canada or in the U.S., saying some clients’ fears may be unfounded.

“I think a lot of people are concerned with our version of the Patriot Act. I think a lot of people don’t have a very strong understanding of it. A lot of people that are just stating hey, this is what my boss says,” Banco says. “We thought, let’s just give Canadians what they want and put a data centre in there.” Read more >>>.

Paul Banco

As CEO of ETHERFAX®, Banco is responsible for the strategic direction of the company and leads technology development, including the patented ETHERFAX and ETHERFAX SEN intellectual property. Banco helped organizations automate their fax server operations. As a visionary, he identified the need to leverage the cloud for secure document delivery and co-founded ETHERFAX in 2009 with other telecom industry veterans.

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