IT ServicesData Center OperationsHardware & ConnectivityCanada · North America

Hardware.Data centers.Connectivity.

PandaTalk sources servers and network gear, runs and advises on data center operations, and brokers ISP and IP transit — for businesses that need infrastructure to simply work.

Request a quoteWhat we do
01 / Hardware
Server & network procurement, resale
02 / Data Center
Operations, colocation, consulting
03 / Connectivity
ISP & IP transit advisory and sales
04 / Managed IT
Ongoing support for your stack
Partners & carriers
[ 01 ] Services

Everything between the loading dock and the upstream router.

From the hardware you buy, to the facility it lives in, to the network it talks over — one team that can quote it, install it, and keep it running.

  1. 01

    Server & Hardware Procurement

    New and certified-refurbished servers, storage, and network equipment — spec'd to your workload and sourced through established vendor channels at competitive pricing.

    • Rack servers
    • Storage
    • Switches & optics
    • GPU nodes
  2. 02

    Data Center Operations

    Remote hands, rack & stack, cabling, power and cooling capacity planning, and day-to-day operations for colocated or private data center footprints.

    • Remote hands
    • Rack & stack
    • Capacity planning
    • Monitoring
  3. 03

    Data Center Consulting

    Site selection, colocation contract negotiation, migration planning, and audits — independent advice before you commit to a facility or a multi-year term.

    • Site selection
    • Colo contracts
    • Migrations
    • Audits
  4. 04

    ISP & IP Transit

    Carrier-neutral advice and resale of IP transit, peering, dark fiber, and wavelength services. We help you choose providers, negotiate commits, and design redundant upstreams.

    • IP transit
    • Peering / IX
    • Dark fiber
    • BGP design
  5. 05

    Managed IT Services

    Ongoing infrastructure management for small and mid-sized businesses: systems administration, patching, backups, network operations, and on-call support.

    • SysAdmin
    • Backups
    • Network ops
    • On-call
  6. 06

    Hardware Lifecycle & Buyback

    Decommissioning, secure data destruction, and buyback or resale of retired equipment — so end-of-life hardware returns value instead of taking up rack space.

    • Decommission
    • Data destruction
    • Buyback
    • Resale
[ 02 ] About

Operators first.
Resellers second.

PandaTalk is an IT services company built around physical infrastructure. We run data center footprints, buy and sell the hardware that fills them, and arrange the connectivity that links them to the rest of the internet.

Because we operate what we sell, our recommendations come from experience in the cage — not a price list. When we quote a server, we know how it will be racked, powered, and reached over the network. When we recommend a transit provider, it's because we've peered with them.

We work with hosting providers, SaaS companies, enterprises with on-prem requirements, and teams moving workloads out of the public cloud.

Focus
IT services & data center operations
Supply
Servers · Storage · Network · Optics
Connectivity
IP transit · Peering · Fiber · Wavelengths
Facilities
Digital Realty · Equinix · carrier-neutral colo
Carriers & IX
Zayo · Cogent · Beanfield · TorIX · CanIX
Engagement
Project-based or ongoing managed services
Based in
Canada, serving North America
[ 03 ] How we work

From requirement to running rack.

Every engagement follows the same path, whether it's a single server or a new data center footprint.

  1. 01

    Scope the requirement

    Workload, power budget, rack space, bandwidth commit, timeline. We define the constraints before anyone talks about SKUs or carriers.

  2. 02

    Quote with options

    New vs. refurbished, buy vs. lease, single-homed vs. multi-homed — you get clear alternatives with real pricing, not one bundled number.

  3. 03

    Deliver and install

    We coordinate logistics, rack and cable the gear, turn up circuits, and hand over documented, tested infrastructure.

  4. 04

    Operate and support

    Remote hands, monitoring, hardware replacement, and carrier escalation — for as long as you want us on the hook.

[ 04 ] Selected work

Recent engagements.

A few representative projects. Client names withheld under NDA; references available on request.

Hosting provider · Toronto

Refreshing a 40-rack footprint at Digital Realty Toronto

Challenge
An aging fleet of mixed-generation servers was driving power costs and failure rates up, and the client's existing cage was out of usable kW with no room to grow.
What we did
Working through our partnership with Digital Realty, we secured a higher-density cage in their Toronto campus and negotiated the colocation terms. We then spec'd a dense replacement fleet (dual-socket EPYC, 25G networking), priced OEM and refurbished options side by side, handled rack & stack over four weekend windows, and bought back the retired gear.
40 → 26racks after consolidation
-38%power draw at the same workload
0customer-facing outages during migration
SaaS company · Vancouver

Moving a production workload out of public cloud into Equinix Vancouver

Challenge
A steady, predictable compute load was costing six figures a month in cloud spend. The team had no data center experience and no procurement contacts.
What we did
After evaluating three carrier-neutral facilities, we placed the workload in two cabinets at Equinix's Vancouver campus, negotiated the colocation and cross-connect terms, procured the hardware, and ran a phased cutover with 30 days of dual-running against the cloud. We now provide remote hands and monitoring under a managed services agreement.
~62%lower monthly infrastructure cost
14 mopayback on hardware
2 cabsat Equinix Vancouver
Regional ISP · Prairies

Redesigning upstream transit and peering

Challenge
A single-homed network with one transit provider on an expensive legacy contract, and no presence at any internet exchange.
What we did
We benchmarked quotes from five transit carriers and, through our carrier relationships with Zayo, Cogent, and Beanfield, negotiated two blended 10G transit commits with burst plus metro fiber for the backhaul. We then arranged IX ports and cross-connects at TorIX and CanIX, and designed the BGP policy for traffic engineering and failover.
3 + 2 IXcarriers and exchanges
-45%cost per Mbps
<60 msto all major CDNs
Enterprise · Toronto

On-prem Kubernetes platform with GPU and petabyte storage

Challenge
A data and ML team needed a private Kubernetes platform with GPU compute and multi-petabyte storage, on a strict capital budget and a short delivery window — and no existing bare-metal footprint.
What we did
We designed and delivered the full stack: a mixed build of new GPU nodes where warranty mattered and certified-refurbished storage nodes and 100G switches where it didn't, a Ceph-backed storage cluster, and a bare-metal Kubernetes cluster with the NVIDIA GPU operator and persistent volumes ready for the team's pipelines. Racked, cabled, and burned in ahead of the quarter close.
2.4 PBusable Ceph storage
16GPUs across 4 K8s worker nodes
3 wksfrom PO to cluster handover
[ 05 ] Contact

Need hardware,
rack space, or bandwidth?

Send us the spec, the site, or the problem. We'll come back with options and pricing — usually within one business day.

sales@pandatalk.ca