As we close the year, our focus remains simple: keep yourbusiness running, your data resilient, and youroperations uninterrupted — no matter the disruption.
– Nudrat Majid, Customer Success Manager
1. Hello West Coast
Stage2Data is opening a Canada West Coast data centre. You get the same full stack as our primary sites, now physically closer to users and systems in that region:
- Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) for production and test workloads
- Backup as a Service (BaaS)
- Disaster Recovery as a Service (DRaaS)
- Object storage for archives and secondary data
- Veeam and Zerto targets for replication
- Managed network and security services
For organisations with staff, offices, or key systems in Western Canada or the US West Coast, shorter network paths translate into lower latency and a smoother experience for end users. At the same time, the new facility gives you another option to keep data inside Canadian borders, which helps with data residency and regulatory needs.
Common use cases include:
- Placing production or test workloads closer to West Coast users.
- Using West Coast as a secondary DR site for East-based production.
- Keeping certain datasets fully resident in Canada while still serving a distributed user base.
If you are planning DR tests, data migrations, or regional expansions in the new year, your Stage2Data contact can map out which services make sense in the West site and how to pair them with your existing deployments.
2. Hyper-V Multi-Tenant on System Center Virtual Machine Manager (SCVMM) is live
Many customers want Windows virtual machines on shared infrastructure, without committing to a full VMware stack. Our new Hyper-V multi-tenant service on SCVMM gives you that option.
New, fully isolated multi-tenant clusters on Hyper-V and SCVMM are now available for customers who want Windows virtualisation without VMware licensing overhead. Each tenant gets:
- Its own role-based access, so internal teams can work with clear separation of duties.
- Segmented networking, so traffic between tenants stays cleanly isolated.
- Policy-driven hooks into Stage2Data backup and DR services.
From an operations point of view, each tenant lives in its own slice of the platform. Your administrators work inside SCVMM with access rights that match your structure. Backup and DR policies attach directly to those workloads, so protection rules stay consistent across clusters and regions.
Who does this help:
- Organisations that want to move Windows workloads away from VMware.
- Service providers that need separate tenants on common Hyper-V hardware.
- Teams that prefer a managed platform instead of building and running their own clusters.
If you are reviewing current VMware costs or planning a refresh of on-prem Windows infrastructure, this service gives you an extra path to consider.
3. Cleanroom Recovery: Verify Data Integrity, Recover in Minutes
Fast recovery means very little if the data you restore is already compromised. Ransomware, wipers, and silent corruption can sit inside backups for weeks. If you fail back too quickly, you risk bringing the problem straight back into production.
To break that cycle, Stage2Data uses a locked-down, air-gapped Cleanroom powered by Cohesity FortKnox. This isolated environment lets IT teams:
- Spin up snapshots away from production.
- Validate that applications start and data behaves as expected.
- Run forensics and malware scans on copies, not on primary systems.
Once you are confident a snapshot is clean, you can restore at LAN speeds into your production environment. That sequence turns recovery from a gamble into a controlled process.
Cleanroom Recovery fits especially well for:
- Organisations hit by ransomware that want higher assurance before failback.
- Teams under pressure to meet strict RTO and RPO targets without cutting corners.
- IT groups that need a repeatable, auditable method to prove the integrity of recovered data.
If you want to run a recovery exercise in the Cleanroom, your Stage2Data team can guide you through a structured test scenario.
4. Sterling Technology Summit 2025: Rethinking Resilience
In Q4 we also joined our US partner Sterling in Sioux City, Iowa, for the Sterling Technology Summit 2025. Stage2Data supported the event as a Gold Sponsor, with a focus on moving past legacy DR plans that treat networks as an afterthought.
Our Chief Revenue Officer, Stephen Pyott, led a session on “Rethinking Resilience and Performance,” where he set out two main themes:
- Network Recovery-as-a-Service (NRaaS™) as the missing link in many continuity strategies. Storage and compute recovery often receive attention, yet the network layer can become a bottleneck once applications start to come back. NRaaS brings the network into the same managed, testable model you already expect from DRaaS.
- Private Cloud GPU-as-a-Service as a credible alternative to hyperscalers for certain workloads. Where security, control, and cost efficiency matter, running GPUs in a private cloud model lets organisations tap into acceleration without handing everything to a public cloud provider.
The discussions at STS 2025 echoed what we hear daily from customers. Resilience is shifting from a static document to a living service that has to perform under stress, across storage, compute, and network layers.
Planning Your Next Steps
Each of these updates connects to a simple idea. Resilience is about more than restoring a backup. It is about where your data lives, how you virtualise key workloads, how you validate integrity, and whether your network can keep up during an incident.
If you want to review any of these areas, reach out to your Stage2Data contact or our team through the website. A short working session can confirm whether the West Coast site, Hyper-V multi-tenant clusters, Cleanroom Recovery, or NRaaS fit into your plans for the year ahead.
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