When Disaster Recovery Goes Awry: 3 Mistakes to Avoid

Even under optimal conditions and thorough disaster recovery (DR) planning, the possibility always exists that your disaster recovery strategy can go wrong. How disaster recovery can go wrong The steps you have taken to ensure your organization stays operational when disaster strikes can go awry for reasons including: A lack of planning – despite including … Read more

Understanding Recovery Time Objective (RTO) and Recovery Point Objective (RPO) as part of your disaster recovery strategy

Disaster can present itself in many forms – corruption, theft, hurricane, ransomware – resulting in downtime, data loss and applications being taken down. Ideally, you would want data protection that could immediately restore all lost data and applications to the exact time and point of failure and immediately have your organization back to business as … Read more

Five Types of Phishing Attacks that Reel in Victims

Phishing attacks are becoming progressively clever and easy to launch. The convenience of phishing kits available to purchase on the dark web renders it easy for cybercriminals, even with minimal technical skills, to launch phishing campaigns. The emails used to execute the phishing attacks are also carefully crafted to avoid suspicion to ensure victims open … Read more

Wind, Water, Fire, Earthquakes: The Consequences for IT infrastructure are Catastrophic

Ransomware attacks in the headlines are prevalent. Yet there’s another threat that remains one of the top causes of data loss – natural disasters. Especially now in the wake of hurricane Dorian, it is important to highlight the fact that natural disasters too have the potential to cripple organizations as it could potentially damage critical … Read more

Key Questions to Ask Your Cloud Backup Service Provider To Determine If Your Data Is Safe

SMEs are increasingly turning to cloud backup services for convenience, simplicity, and reliability.  As an SME, protecting your computers and data from theft, cybercrime, and disasters (human and natural) is crucial as you’ll be in possession of customers’ financial and personal information as well as your own business-critical information. That’s why planning and implementing a … Read more

Press release: Stage2Data Announces Strategic Partnership with Universal Compute Xchange (UCXmarket)

Stage2Data, leading North American cloud management service provider, announces important partnership with Universal Compute Xchange (UCX), a secondary marketplace for cloud computing resources. UCX is a one-of-a-kind cloud marketplace that compares thousands of options simultaneously, helping clients build and compare the best solutions for their IT needs and budget. It offers a single procurement solution across multiple providers. UCX’s … Read more

Press release: Stage2Data is Proud to Announce Stephen Pyott as Their New President to Lead the Company Globally

Stephen brings a decade of experience to the Stage2Data team focusing on hybrid cloud and the deployment of disaster recovery and business continuity solutions. Stephen has earned a reputation for his strong strategic sensibilities and his ability to see the bigger picture when putting solutions together for clients. The result? Satisfied clients who experience operational … Read more

File Archiving as a Service: Save backup costs by moving your data to Stage2Data Cloud Archives

Introducing File Archiving as a Service – FAaaS Most organisations’ data accumulates over time which means much of the data is no longer critical in ongoing business operations. Stage2Data offers a secure archive service where your redundant and irrelevant files are moved from on-premise and safely stored in our private cloud data center. By offloading … Read more

Case Study: Stage2Data joins forces with Rubrik as their first Canadian MSP cloud provider

“Canada’s Leading Cloud Solutions Provider Stage2Data Accelerates Business Growth with Rubrik-Powered “Always-On” Hybrid Cloud Services “ Drawing on over 20 years of experience, Stage2Data is one of Canada’s fastest growing cloud solution providers. Since 1998, Stage2Data has specialized in disasterrecovery- as-a-service, backup-as-a-service and hosting services to its customers. As more of Stage2Data’s customers move their … Read more

Press release: Stage2Data appoints Petrus Human as new COO/CTO

“Since Human joined Stage2Data the company’s revenue has already grown by a significant 40%. “   Stage2Data press release: Toronto, Canada, August 2017 – Petrus Human, acquires a significant share in leading Canadian Backup and Cloud solutions provider, Stage2Data and takes on the role as new COO and CTO. In November 2016, Petrus Human, former … Read more