Web hosting provider Project Hosts announced on Wednesday that it has launched its services – which include Microsoft EPM/PPM, SharePoint and CRM cloud hosting services – in Toronto, Canada.

With the addition of a Canadian data center, Project Hosts now has eight data centers worldwide. Project Hosts will offer its custom cloud solutions to its Canadian-based partners, enterprise organizations and government agencies that require localized hosting services.

This launch comes nearly a month after Rackspace added SharePoint professional services- including customization, administration and training - after its acquisition of SharePoint 900 earlier in the year. finds that about 50 percent of organizations using SharePoint are maintaining more than 1 TB of data in SharePoint, which is good news for cloud providers offering SharePoint services. Further, organizations interviewed in the survey claim SharePoint is too complicated to build or buy. By offering custom solutions as both Project Hosts and Rackspace do, customers that may not have adopted SharePoint may be more inclined with a higher level of support.

Project Hosts says its Custom Cloud hosting solutions meet customer demands for specific solutions architecture, applications integration needs, customized reporting and security requirements.

“We are very excited to bring another one of our custom cloud hosting facilities on-line in support of hosted Microsoft Enterprise Project and Portfolio Management, SharePoint and CRM solutions,” Scott Chapman, CEO and co-founder of Project Hosts said in a statement. “For many Canadian organizations, especially those in the government sector and those moving from a traditional on-site deployment or private cloud, having an in-country hosting option is a definite advantage.”

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