Case Study: Canadian Securities Exchange satisfied with Stage2Data’s off-site backup service

The Canadian Securities Exchange (CSE), is operated by CNSX Markets Inc. Recognized as a stock exchange in 2004, the CSE commenced operations in 2003 to provide a modern and efficient alternative for companies looking to access the Canadian public capital markets. With its two data centers in Toronto, the CSE has approximately one terabyte of … Read more

How business leaders can manage the security risk of working from home during COVID-19

In a previous post, we discussed how to navigate work from home during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our focus was specifically on business continuity planning and business process automation to reduce the impact on employees and operations. Assuming that organizations have by now settled into the new normal of social distancing and digital rules, meetings, classes … Read more

Cybercrime in the first quarter of 2020 – it’s not a question of if, but when…

“The average time to identify a data breach is 279 days” “More than two-thirds of all DDoS attacks originate from China” “Cybercrime will cost the world $6 trillion a year in 2021” “Year-over-year ransomware downtime costs are up 200%” With the first quarter of 2020 nearing its end, we take a look at the cybercrime … Read more

COVID-19: How to work from home the right way

The World Health Organization has officially categorized the COVID-19 outbreak a pandemic. This means the novel Coronavirus is accelerating in several countries simultaneously. In response, the United States announced travel bans on 28 European countries, and many other countries have closed schools and universities and canceled or postponed large gatherings of people. While governments globally … Read more

Case Study: Backerhaus Veit impressed with Stage2Data’s fast emergency data recovery resulting in zero data loss

Bäckerhaus Veit, an award-winning artisan bakery founded in 1987 by Sabine Veit, hails from a long line of Master Bakers dedicated to producing high quality, hand-shaped bread according to time-honored traditions. Since then, Backerhaus Veit has grown bringing a passion for quality to bread lovers across North America. Their technical environment comprises 8 servers and … Read more

Network Recovery-as-a-Service: Five factors (besides disasters) that can cause a network failure

Network recovery used to be straight forward. However, with the advent of complex arrangements such as hybrid cloud computing, security, virtual servers, and the massive pressure cloud migration and mobility put on networks,  recovering from a network crash has become a complicated endeavor. It is also worth noting that networks fail for more reasons than … Read more

Case Study: Wood & Associates satisfied with Stage2Data’s full recovery and managed backup services

After more than 30 years in business, Wood & Associates have integrated the best of traditional, new, and emerging media to give clients’ marketing the best of ALL worlds, by using tried and true direct mail techniques that work. Adding a web component allows for accurate real-time data capture and mobile elements that improve access … Read more

Ransomware attack on multi-million dollar Ontario construction firm – make sure you are protected

“A multi-million dollar Ontario construction firm that has worked on major federal and provincial projects including facilities for national defence and police stations has been hit by a ransomware attack.” Serious questions arose when a Canadian construction firm working on both military and federal contracts worth millions of dollars was hit by a ransomware attack. … Read more

The Enterprise’s Guide to IT-as-a-Service

Before discussing IT-as-a-service you first have to understand enterprise IT. In a nutshell, enterprise IT is the secure consumption of services from two or more sources such as private cloud, public cloud and traditional IT. Its goal is to enable the integration of applications, data and services, to compose, orchestrate and manage workloads and to … Read more

Disaster Recovery-as-a-Service (DRaaS) for the SME/SMB market – The time is now!

Being cut off from crucial data for a lengthy period of time is every business’s worst nightmare. Something as malicious as ransomware, uncontrollable like severe weather, or innocent such as human error (or ignorant) can trigger a crisis like this. Notwithstanding the reason, the results will still be devastating. Here’s what you need to know: … Read more