CIO Bulletin

An innovator delivering excellent managed IT services, private cloud and managed security services to businesses with high-quality end to end IT solution: SIMNET

When SIMNET’s Founder and CEO, Ted de Vos, grew tired of the unnecessary complexity of IT, he created SIMNET, a service-driven company dedicated to marrying outstanding technology with unparalleled support—no complexities needed. Founded in 2008, SIMNET has a strong history of providing a range of cloud computing services, including infrastructure as a service (IaaS), platform as a service (PaaS), and software as a service (SaaS). SIMNET serves a variety of industries and customers, including small and medium-sized businesses, enterprises, and government agencies. SIMNET offers cloud, manage, and secure services because it understands the importance of providing businesses with a comprehensive and holistic approach to their IT infrastructure.

Cloud services allow businesses to leverage the benefits of cloud computing while maintaining control over their data and IT infrastructure. Manage services provide businesses with the tools and support they need to manage their IT infrastructure and ensure that it is running smoothly and efficiently. Secure services provide businesses with the protection they need to secure their data and IT infrastructure from cyber threats. Together, these services work to provide businesses with a complete and integrated solution that addresses all their IT needs, ensuring that their IT infrastructure is running smoothly and efficiently while keeping their data and systems secure. By providing Cloud, Manage and Secure services, SIMNET empowers clients to focus on operating their business while SIMNET takes care of their IT infrastructure.

In conversation with Ted de Vos, CEO of SIMNET

Q. Can you briefly tell us about SIMNET’s wide variety of services?

The SIMNET Cloud is built on top of a 100 GBE network and specifically utilizes the latest security technologies to ensure that your data is safe and secure. Our cloud platform is built on top of Dell servers with the latest Intel chips and flash storage, ensuring lightning-fast performance and ultra-low latency. With SIMNET Cloud you can conveniently scale your resources up or down, on demand, to meet the changing needs of your business. SIMNET’s Infrastructure as a service (IaaS) allows you to outsource the management and maintenance of your IT infrastructure to us, freeing up your internal resources to focus on delivering value to your customers.

SIMNET Cloud has three data centers located in Montreal, Toronto, and Vancouver, ensuring that you have consistent access to high-quality cloud resources from any location. Our data centers are resilient operating at n+1 capacity to prevent downtime entirely.

Q. In an ever-growing market of IT solutions providers, how is SIMNET different from the rest? What niche in the market does SIMNET fill?

As a company, our mission is to be recognized as one of Canada’s most significant service companies. Our goal is to provide the best IT service available. We hire for it; we train to it; we live it. We want each client to feel valued like they are our only customer. We believe providing excellent service and creating happy customers is the way to create a valuable, enduring company that people love.

SIMNET’s Cloud platform is built on top of the latest technologies and is designed to deliver unparalleled performance, security, and scalability. Whether you are a small business looking to streamline your operations or a large enterprise seeking a secure and reliable platform to host your mission-critical applications, SIMNET Cloud has you covered.

Q. How has innovation helped SIMNET grow over the years?

Our customer-first approach empowers us to be a frontrunner in innovation. Our solutions are highly customizable and scalable, ensuring that every company receives the best solution for their business. We don’t add extra unnecessary services or get caught up in convoluted and overly technical jargon; we work with our customers to ensure they have the best solutions for their business.

Innovation drives us. Our team is constantly learning and updating their skillset to ensure the most current knowledge of the latest technologies. Most of our support professionals hold certifications in cloud technologies, ensuring that they have the knowledge and skillset to assist with any issue.

Tell us about the SIMNET team and your Hiring Culture.

At SIMNET, we believe in hiring within our organization to ensure that we stay close to our clients and focused on their success. Our support team is composed of individuals who have a deep understanding of our clients' needs and requirements. They have the technical expertise and experience to design, deploy, migrate and support private clouds that are tailored to the specific needs of each business. This allows us to provide a high level of personalization and service to our clients. Additionally, we can ensure that we deeply understand our clients' needs, positioning SIMNET to provide them with the best possible service.

Q. Would you like us to highlight something important happening in your company that we may have missed asking?

By leveraging SIMNET Cloud, our clients can quickly and easily deploy and manage its IT systems and applications in a flexible, scalable way. SIMNET Cloud's virtualization technology allows a company to run multiple virtual machines on a single physical server, maximizing the use of hardware resources and significantly reducing costs.

In addition, SIMNET Cloud's high-speed connectivity and multiple data center locations help organizations to improve the performance of applications and reduce latency. This is especially important for organizations using applications that are mission-critical and need to be available 24/7.

SIMNET clients have seen significant improvements in the efficiency and performance of their IT systems, applications, and have been able to largely reduce costs as a result. SIMNET enables our clients to focus more on their core business and less on managing IT infrastructure through migration to the SIMNET Cloud.