Private cloud: your servers in the cloud, hosted in Quebec.
A private cloud we manage for you. Your servers are hosted in Montreal, with an optional recovery copy in Quebec City, and you get the performance and flexibility of the cloud with no server room to maintain.
Is your server room still the right place for your data?
Physical servers age, fail and tie up capital. And they often sit in a room that was never designed for them.
Ageing hardware
The older a server gets, the more likely it is to fail.
Spending in large blocks
Renewal means a large outlay every four or five years.
Fixed capacity
Too small when you grow, oversized the rest of the time.
A single point of failure
Water damage, overheating, theft: everything is in one place.
A server failure can stop the whole business
For an SMB, the question is how long the business can keep running without it.
Days of downtime
Replacing and reconfiguring a server can take days.
Unrecoverable data
If the backups sit in the same room, they can disappear with everything else.
Growth on hold
A new office or a new team waits on the infrastructure.
In a private cloud, redundancy and recovery are planned from the start.
A private cloud designed, migrated and managed for you
We host your servers and applications in a redundant, monitored environment that we manage, and adjust the capacity as you grow.
Servers hosted in Quebec
Your servers are hosted in our main data room in Montreal. Depending on the solution you choose, they can also be replicated to Quebec City for recovery, and backed up daily or immutably in Ottawa.
Staged migration
A step-by-step plan, outside critical hours, with a rollback path.
Backups and recovery
Verified backups and a recovery scenario that we test.
Secure access from anywhere
Your teams reach their applications from the office or remotely.
What we look at before proposing a migration
A private cloud isn't right for everything. These six criteria decide what is worth moving, and what should stay where it is.
Your applications
Some software has licensing or hardware requirements that mean it has to stay on site. We check that first.
Your internet link
Once the servers are in the cloud, the office connection becomes essential: speed, stability, backup link.
Your tolerance for downtime
How long can the business run without a given system? The answer sets the level of redundancy.
The age of your servers
An expiring warranty or an upcoming renewal is often the right time to compare.
Where your data lives
Your clients', your insurer's and your own personal-information requirements.
What you already have
Microsoft 365 and your other online services may already cover part of the need: we avoid paying twice.
A host that is also your IT team
Along with the capacity, we manage the environment, the backups and support for the people who use it.
Book a discovery call (30 min)Cloud migration in four steps
Most of the work in a migration happens before the night of the cutover.
Current-state analysis
We inventory servers, applications and dependencies.
Architecture and plan
We design the target environment and a detailed migration plan.
Migration in waves
We migrate outside critical hours, validating each step.
Management and tuning
Monitoring, backups and resource adjustments over time.
What you can count on from day one
Everything is written down before we start, and nothing ties you to us beyond the agreement.
Your questions, answered
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Pages related to your situationLet's see whether a private cloud fits
A server coming off warranty, a new office to set up, a client asking where your data is: 30 minutes to work out what would benefit from moving, and what should stay where it is.