San Francisco-based cloud and disaster recovery provider UnitedLayer has opened the doors to its facility in Vancouver, Canada.

UnitedLayer said the facility strengthens its position as a one-stop provider of hybrid cloud hosting services for enterprises, government agencies, media and other organizations with hybrid hosting needs.

UnitedLayer will offer integrated hybrid cloud hosting from traditional colocation to private and public clouds and disaster recovery for business continuity.

It said it believed business agility is critical for survival.

UnitedLayer said as an organizations IT and hybrid cloud management needs evolve, it will provide the technologies and capabilities that allow organizations to ‘plan for today and grow into tomorrow.’

According to IDG Research Services, more than 50% of the organizations polled are already using or planning to move to a hybrid cloud.

UnitedLayer said hybrid cloud management breaks down the barriers between "old fashioned" legacy IT and the cloud model of today in order to support a comprehensive IT infrastructure that can talk as "one."

UnitedLayer’s CEO Abhijit Phanse said UnitedLayer's hybrid approach allows a business to take advantage of the scalability and cost-effectiveness that cloud computing offers without having to jettison its legacy infrastructure whether it is on-premise, VMware cloud or colocation.