Canadian Tire opens digital centre

WINNIPEG — Canadian Tire has officially opened its Cloud Nine Digital Innovation Centre, a 28,000 square-foot digital content warehouse, application and testing lab, and high performance data centre. Serving as the new data core for Canadian Tire Corporation’s banners, including Mark’s and Sport Chek, it is expected to provide 20 times more computing power and 10 times more bandwidth than the firm’s existing infrastructure.