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Backup vs. Disaster Recovery: Backup Isn’t Enough to Protect Your Business from Disaster

When a business suffers a cybersecurity disaster, one of the most long-lasting, detrimental effects comes in the form of downtime, or a loss of business operations and profits. A lack of disaster recovery planning can result in a chain of events that turns a minor cybersecurity event into a data breach and resultant catastrophic business disaster.

Many small and medium-sized businesses simply don’t have the disaster recovery planning in place to survive even a partial loss of data and IT functionality for a short time, much less the related fall-out and loss of revenue that results from a full-blown data breach.
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BurCom Consulting Announces New Strategic Cloud Partnership

BurCom Consulting is pleased to announce our new strategic partnership with Server Cloud Canada, one of the largest distributed cloud infrastructure platforms across Canada.

Being one of the largest Sage partners in Canada, BurCom deals with a lot of highly sensitive data and information. Server Cloud Canada was proud to successfully prevail through the diligent selection process, evaluating key criteria of security, flexible scalability and data residency.

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When Data Residency And Security Matters In A National Distributed Cloud Infrastructure

OscarService Inc. is pleased to announce our new partnership with Server Cloud Canada, one of Canada’s largest geo-redundant cloud infrastructure platforms.

“As a large provider of EMR systems we expectedly work with substantial amounts of confidential medical data that needs to stay in Canada, so obviously security is a top concern for us. The SCC team was able to demonstrate their commitment to security at each and every layer. Our engineering team had stringent requirements that they diligently pursued and assessed when confirming the infrastructure for operational readiness. We at OscarService are excited and looking forward to growing with our new partner.”

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Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery 2014

Server Cloud Canada was fortunate to participate in this year’s Ontario Centres of Excellence Discovery 2014 conference and exhibition in Toronto.

Discovery brings together over 2,500 of the best and brightest minds in industry, academia, the investment community and government to showcase leading-edge technologies, best practices and research in Ontario.

Of particular interest, the increasing trend in procuring virtual scalable infrastructure exclusively distributed within the Canadian market.

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Preparing for the Cloud

IT organizations need to begin thinking and operating more like a service provider.

They should be able to describe their offerings as services based on attributes such as business value, compliance, security, availability and performance. Technology options should be mapped to service offerings and the costs associated with those cloud services. This approach can help to drive more efficient delivery of IT services and increase user satisfaction whether a cloud approach is ultimately pursued or not.

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