Backbone Systems (Cloud8)

Backbone is a 100% Canadian Cloud provider of hosted IT (MS Office, Exchange, backup, file sharing, accounting software and more) since 2005

  • Stage Full Product Ready
  • Industry IT Services
  • Location Vancouver, BC, Canada
  • Currency USD
  • Founded July 2005
  • Website backbonesystems.ca

Company Summary

Backbone provides a variety of applications and services. to SMB in Canada. Clients range from 2 to 250 users and use a variety of applications from a single solution to a full internal network replacement. Adoptions is being driven by the constant change in complexity with managing corp. networks - dealing with many applications, users bringing a plethora of devices and people working from anywhere, anytime. We deliver the technology via Cloud

Team

  • Ken Tan
    Senior Network Architect

    Ken Tan has been making the impossible happen at Backbone - taking traditional IT and making it hosting friendly since the companies' inception. Ken is skilled at Microsoft server infrastructure, multi tenant architecture and security, mobile solutions such as BlackBerry Enterprise and ActiveSync. His designs have enabled Backbone to provide custom SQL database environments to support multiple ERP applications.

  • Sarah Morton
    CEO, founder

    Morton is a serial entrepreneur whose has been involved in several tech startups. Backbone is her passion and her vision of a world with devices everywhere that connect to applications and data has come true. She has built Backbone to be a full service provider, recognizing that businesses need a full service provider rather than having to manage a handful of solutions. The vision is simple - build great products and deliver amazing service.

Advisors

  • Maryam Zargar
    Lawyer
    Unconfirmed

Previous Investors

  • WUTIF
    Unconfirmed
    Angel investors
    Unconfirmed

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