Private cloud hosting. Canadian infrastructure. Real failover.

Vusix Systems operates private cloud infrastructure across multiple Canadian data centers with multi-carrier connectivity and disaster recovery failover to our secondary facility. It’s the alternative when public cloud costs are spiraling, when data residency matters, or when you need predictable performance that shared tenancy can’t guarantee.

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What we do

We run a private cloud platform for clients who need dedicated infrastructure without the overhead of running their own data center. The platform is built on enterprise-grade compute, storage, and networking in Canadian Tier-III data centers, with redundancy designed into every layer — power, cooling, network, storage, and geographic location.

Each client environment is logically isolated with its own compute allocation, storage, and network segmentation. You get the benefits of public-cloud-style provisioning with the cost predictability and performance characteristics of dedicated infrastructure. No surprise egress bills. No noisy-neighbor performance problems. No reaching for a calculator every time somebody wants to download a database backup.

For clients who need it, we also provide disaster recovery as a service. Your production environment — whether it’s running in our primary DC, in public cloud, or on-prem — gets replicated to our secondary facility. If the primary fails, we fail over to the secondary and keep your business running while the primary is recovered. This isn’t “we have a backup somewhere” — it’s an engineered failover path with tested runbooks and RPO/RTO commitments we’ll put in writing.

Why clients come to us for private cloud

Four patterns drive most of our private cloud engagements:

1. Public cloud costs got out of hand.

A company moves to AWS or Azure during a growth phase. The workload stabilizes, but the cost keeps climbing — usually because data volume grew, egress fees compounded, and nobody had time to right-size the VMs that got over-provisioned during the migration. We run the workload on our private cloud for a predictable monthly fee, and the total cost is often 40–60% lower over a three-year horizon.

2. Moving off on-prem without moving to public cloud.

The server room is showing its age. Leadership wants out of the “we run our own data center” business, but public cloud isn’t the right target — either because of cost, data residency, or workload characteristics. We take the workloads off your on-prem and into our private cloud. You get out of the infrastructure business without getting into the cloud-bill business.

3. Canadian data residency with real guarantees.

Some compliance regimes aren’t satisfied by “AWS ca-central-1.” If your customers, regulators, or contracts require that data never leaves Canadian-owned infrastructure — or that the operator is a Canadian company subject only to Canadian law — our private cloud meets that bar. We can produce the documentation your auditors want.

4. Disaster recovery for workloads that already exist somewhere else.

Your production environment is on-prem, or in Azure, or at another hosting provider, and you don’t have a real DR target. We become your DR site. We replicate the environment, maintain it, run periodic failover tests so you know it actually works, and stand ready to take over production traffic when the primary fails. Failover is not an emergency — it’s a planned operation that we’ve rehearsed.

How it works

Assessment and workload mapping (Week 1)

We assess the environment you want to host or protect. Current infrastructure, workload characteristics, data volumes, network requirements, compliance constraints, and RPO/RTO targets. Output is a target architecture, a migration or replication plan, and a fixed monthly cost. No “it depends” pricing — you know the number before you commit.

Design and provisioning (Week 2–3)

We design the target environment — compute, storage, network segmentation, backup configuration, replication topology. For DR engagements, we design the replication flow and failover runbooks. We provision in our primary data center and, for DR clients, stand up the secondary. You get a detailed technical design document; nothing is built from a vague one-pager.

Migration or replication seeding (Week 3–6)

For migrations, we move the workload in phases with cutover planned for a low-traffic window. For DR, we seed the initial replica and then maintain continuous replication. Throughout, we test — cutover rehearsals for migrations; a live failover test within the first 90 days for DR. No client goes to production on our platform without a tested failover path.

Production operation (ongoing)

Once live, we operate the environment: monitoring, patching, backup verification, capacity management, and incident response. Monthly reports cover utilization, backup status, replication health, and anything that needs attention. Your team uses the same helpdesk they’d use for managed IT — no separate ticket system.

Periodic failover testing (quarterly or per your contract)

DR that hasn’t been tested isn’t DR. We run scheduled failover tests at a cadence that fits your business. Each test ends with a written report covering what succeeded, what took longer than expected, and what’s being adjusted for next time.

What’s included

Dedicated compute, storage, and network resources in our primary Canadian data center
Multi-carrier connectivity — multiple Tier-1 carriers for backbone redundancy
Tier-III facilities with N+1 power and cooling redundancy
Logical network isolation per client with segmented VLANs and dedicated firewall policies
VMware or KVM virtualization with live migration and snapshot capability
Automated backups with encryption at rest and in transit, retained per your policy
24/7 infrastructure monitoring — power, network, compute, storage
Capacity management — we monitor headroom and scale before you hit limits
Patch management for the virtualization and infrastructure layer
For DR clients: continuous replication to secondary facility, failover runbooks, quarterly testing
Cross-region redundancy — primary and secondary facilities geographically separated
Compliance documentation — SOC reports, residency attestations, operational runbooks

What makes our private cloud different

Canadian all the way down.

The infrastructure is in Canada, the company operating it is Canadian, and the engineers supporting it are Canadian. US-owned cloud providers operating Canadian regions are still subject to US law; we aren’t. If your contracts, customers, or regulators care about the nationality of the operator — not just the location of the servers — that matters.

Vendor-flexible about what runs on it.

The private cloud isn’t a proprietary platform. It’s enterprise-grade virtualization running Windows, Linux, and common workload patterns. VMware workloads from on-prem move over. Linux and Postgres from AWS move over. We don’t force you to rewrite applications to use a proprietary API.

DR that gets tested, not just sold.

Most DR services are sold as a checkbox — the provider sets up replication and never touches it again. We run scheduled failover tests and produce written reports. When we tell you the environment can be failed over in 4 hours, it’s because we did it last quarter in 3 hours 40 minutes and have the log to prove it.

Transparent pricing.

Monthly fee, based on resource allocation, with no egress surprises. The bill you get in month twelve looks like the bill you got in month one, adjusted only for changes you’ve actually made. If you’re coming off a public-cloud environment where the finance team dreads the monthly reconciliation, this alone is worth the conversation.

The technical details: Dell and HPE hardware · Carrier-neutral Tier-III DCs in Canada · VMware vSphere (KVM available) · Tiered storage: NVMe / SSD / spinning disk, all encrypted at rest · Segmented VLANs · Site-to-site VPN and dedicated private circuit support · Veeam or native backup · Zerto / Veeam Replication for DR

Common questions

How much does private cloud cost compared to AWS or Azure?

For predictable workloads that run 24/7, we’re typically 40–60% less than equivalent AWS or Azure configurations over a three-year horizon. The savings come from eliminating egress fees, right-sizing resources during migration, and predictable flat-fee pricing. For highly variable workloads that scale up and down frequently, public cloud can still be cheaper — we’ll tell you which bucket you fall into during assessment.

What are your RPO and RTO commitments for DR?

Default commitments are 4-hour RPO and same-day RTO — in the event of primary failure, we’ll have your environment running in the secondary within a business day, with at most four hours of data loss. We can commit to tighter RPO/RTO for clients with more stringent requirements. We write the specific commitment into your contract and test against it.

Where are your data centers located?

We operate across multiple Canadian data centers with geographic separation between primary and secondary facilities. We’ll share specific facility details under NDA during the assessment process. All facilities are Tier-III or better, SOC-audited, and carrier-neutral.

Can we bring our own VMware licenses?

Yes, BYOL is supported for VMware and most other software that allows license transfer. We can also include licensing in the monthly fee if you’d prefer to simplify.

What if we want to migrate away from you later?

You can. We’ll export VMs in standard formats (OVF, VMDK, VHD), assist with the cutover, and give you a 30-day transition window at current service levels. No platform exit fees, no hostage-taking. Same principle as our managed IT and custom tooling services.

How is this different from using Azure’s Canadian regions?

Three differences: (1) Operator nationality — Azure Canada Central is owned and operated by Microsoft (US company); we’re Canadian. For some contracts and regulators that matters. (2) Cost predictability — Azure bills based on consumption with egress fees; we bill a predictable monthly fee. (3) We operate the layer above the infrastructure as part of the service; Azure is infrastructure you or your MSP operates separately.

Can we use private cloud for just DR, and keep production elsewhere?

Yes — DR-as-a-service is a common engagement. Your production stays wherever it is; we stand up the DR environment, maintain replication, and run failover tests. Pricing for DR-only engagements is typically 30–40% of equivalent full-hosting cost, because we allocate reserved capacity rather than running live workloads on it.

Is this a good fit for regulated industries like healthcare or finance?

Often yes. The Canadian-operated, Canadian-resident infrastructure matches well with PHIPA, PIPEDA, and sector-specific Canadian regulations. For PCI-DSS workloads, we can operate within the required scope. Healthcare and financial clients should expect a longer assessment phase to properly document the compliance posture.

Ready to start?

Two of our engineers review your current environment, your cost profile, and your DR requirements — and send you back a written report covering whether private cloud makes sense, what it would cost, and what the migration path looks like. No obligation.

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