Canada’s Uniserve to launch 1MW data center in Vancouver

Our take – ONQU

For UK organisations running critical data systems, this news has no direct effect, but it shows that operators keep adding data centre capacity close to sites they already run. Uniserve is developing a 1MW data centre in Vancouver, next door to its existing data centre. The story gives no detail on timing, design or services, so we would not read too much into it. For IT leaders and database teams, the more useful question is how well your own systems would cope with an outage. Whether you host on-site, in a colocation facility or in the cloud, the basics are the same: know where your data sits, test failover and plan recovery before you need it. Clear runbooks and tested backups turn an outage from a crisis into a manageable incident. If your estate has grown over many years, a review of resilience can show where to start. ONQU provides managed services for data estates across the UK, and we are happy to talk through your options.