Canadian IT consulting — SMB, enterprise, education
One accountable partner from first assessment to steady state. We assess, design, build, and care for the storage, networks, compute, and AI systems your organization runs on — senior engineers, honest numbers, and data that never leaves Canada.
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$ ethica assess --env production
storage dell powerscale · 3.2 PiB usable · nfs/s3
network evpn/vxlan leaf-spine · 4×400G per leaf
ai on-prem inference · answers from your own data
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✔ p99 read latency ↓ 41%
✔ gpu utilization ↑ 2.3×
✔ data residency Canada
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What we do
You shouldn’t need one firm to assess, another to build, and a third to answer the phone at 3 a.m. ethi.ca covers the full lifecycle of your infrastructure — one accountable team, one standard of engineering.
Know where you stand before you spend a dollar.
Petabyte-scale storage that doesn't page you at 3 a.m.
Networks that stay up, keep up, and don't surprise you on the invoice.
Servers, containers, and hybrid cloud sized honestly.
Security that's tested, not assumed.
AI in production — private, grounded, and actually useful.
Who we serve
From founder-led companies to national enterprises and school districts — the engineering standard is identical. Only the packaging changes.
Enterprise-grade infrastructure without the enterprise headcount.
Sovereign, compliant infrastructure at national scale.
Modern learning infrastructure on education budgets.
Research-grade infrastructure that also runs the campus.
Companies whose product runs on the models they deploy.
Uptime and confidentiality you can defend in an audit.
How we work
Engagements that start with a baseline and end with your team owning a system they understand — and a partner still on call after go-live.
We baseline before we recommend — profiles, traces, and benchmarks, not opinions. If we can’t show you the number, we don’t make the claim.
Storage, fabric, and inference designs sized to your real traffic patterns — headroom where it matters, thrift where it doesn’t.
We ship code, configs, and runbooks alongside your engineers. No black boxes, no hero culture, no lock-in.
Go-live is the halfway point. Monitoring, optimization, and escalation plans for the systems we build — as much or as little as you want.
Ways to engage
The engagement fits the problem — not the other way around.
Fixed-scope design and build — storage migrations, fabric rollouts, AI pilots — with a defined finish line and pricing agreed up front.
A senior architect on retainer: second opinions, roadmaps, RFP challenge, and honest answers before you sign with anyone.
Quietly, in the background: around-the-clock monitoring, patching, tested backups, and capacity reviews for the systems we build — so they stay the way we left them.
Who we are
ethi.ca is an independent, full-solution consulting practice. Our engineers have assessed, architected, built, and run petabyte-scale storage, national datacenter fabrics, research computing clusters, and production AI for Canadian organizations.
We build on platforms from Dell, HPE, Lenovo, NetApp, Cisco, and VMware — and we’ll tell you straight when commodity gear or open source serves you better. We write things down, we stand behind our numbers, and we’d rather show you a benchmark than a brochure.
Get in touch
Tell us what’s slow, fragile, or ambitious. The first conversation is free and technically useful — expect a considered reply within one business day.
hello@ethi.ca · remote-first · based in Canada