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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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
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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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