{"$schema":"https://kanatacloud.ca/api/directory","license":"CC BY 4.0","attribution":"KanataCloud Canadian Tech Alternatives Directory","source":"https://kanatacloud.ca/directory","generatedAt":"2026-09-21","counts":{"companies":15,"categories":11,"americanServicesMapped":52},"notes":{"pricing":"amount is null unless the figure is cited from the vendor's own page with the date it was read. Never treat null as zero or as unknown-but-cheap.","replaces":"A category-equivalence claim — the two products do the same job. Not a claim of feature parity; see each note."},"companies":[{"slug":"opensrs","logo":"/img/logos/opensrs.png","name":"OpenSRS","company":"Tucows Inc.","city":"Toronto","province":"ON","category":"Domains","monogram":"OS","tagline":"Wholesale domain management at registrar scale.","summary":"OpenSRS is the reseller platform run by Tucows, one of the largest domain registrars in the world and a Canadian public company headquartered in Toronto. It handles registration, transfers, renewals, nameservers and contact management across hundreds of TLDs, including .ca.","offerings":[{"title":"Domain registration","copy":"Register and renew .ca and global TLDs through one account."},{"title":"Transfers","copy":"Inbound and outbound transfers with auth-code handling and transfer locks."},{"title":"Nameserver control","copy":"Point domains anywhere without leaving the registrar."},{"title":"Contact management","copy":"Registrant, admin and technical contacts, with privacy options where the TLD allows."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Domains","vendor":"GoDaddy","note":"Same job — registration, renewal, DNS delegation. GoDaddy bundles hosting and upsells aggressively; OpenSRS is a wholesale platform, so the buying experience is different."},{"service":"Domains","vendor":"Namecheap","note":"Comparable registrar function. Namecheap sells retail; OpenSRS is built for resellers and agencies managing volume."},{"service":"Route 53 (registrar)","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"Covers the registrar half only. Route 53's hosted-zone DNS is a separate capability — see CIRA for that side."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per domain, per year, varies by TLD","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per domain / year","plan":".ca registration"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per domain / year","plan":".com registration"},"note":"Domain pricing varies by TLD and by reseller tier, so a single headline figure would mislead. Compare like-for-like TLDs at the same volume."},"dataResidency":"Canada","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":false,"urls":{"website":"https://opensrs.com"},"kcpp":{"path":"rest-adapter","level":"L3"},"logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.71,"hostedConfidence":0.09,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"AWS-powered cloud hosting built for resellers.","ownedVerifiedBy":"human","ownedNote":"Tucows Inc. is a Canadian public company headquartered in Toronto, listed on the TSX and NASDAQ."}},{"slug":"cira","name":"CIRA Anycast DNS","company":"Canadian Internet Registration Authority","city":"Ottawa","province":"ON","category":"DNS","monogram":"CA","tagline":"Authoritative DNS operated by the .ca registry.","summary":"CIRA is the not-for-profit that operates the .ca domain on behalf of Canadians. Its anycast DNS service runs authoritative DNS across a global node network with Canadian operational control, and it also offers DNS firewall and cybersecurity services to Canadian organizations.","offerings":[{"title":"Anycast DNS","copy":"Authoritative DNS served from a distributed node network."},{"title":"DNSSEC","copy":"Signed zones with key management handled by the registry operator."},{"title":"DNS firewall","copy":"Recursive DNS filtering for organizations, with Canadian threat intelligence."},{"title":"Full record support","copy":"A, AAAA, CNAME, MX, TXT, SRV, CAA and NS."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Cloudflare DNS","vendor":"Cloudflare","note":"Both serve authoritative anycast DNS. Cloudflare bundles CDN and WAF at the same edge; CIRA is DNS-focused, so pair it with a separate security provider."},{"service":"Route 53","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"Comparable authoritative DNS. Route 53's deep AWS integration (alias records to AWS resources) has no equivalent outside AWS."},{"service":"Cisco Umbrella","vendor":"Cisco","note":"Maps to CIRA's DNS Firewall rather than its authoritative service — recursive filtering, not zone hosting."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per zone or per seat, by organization size","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per zone / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per zone / month"},"note":"Cloudflare and Route 53 price DNS per zone plus per million queries. Any comparison needs a stated query volume to be meaningful."},"dataResidency":"Canada","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":false,"urls":{"website":"https://www.cira.ca"},"kcpp":{"path":"rest-adapter","level":"L2"},"logo":"/img/logos/cira.webp","logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.97,"hostedConfidence":0.17,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":""}},{"slug":"whc","name":"WHC","company":"Web Hosting Canada","city":"Montréal","province":"QC","category":"Hosting","monogram":"WH","tagline":"Canadian web hosting with data centres in Montréal and Beauharnois.","summary":"Web Hosting Canada is a Montréal-based host offering shared, WordPress, VPS and reseller hosting from Canadian data centres, with bilingual support. It is one of the larger independent Canadian hosts serving small business and agency customers.","offerings":[{"title":"Managed WordPress","copy":"WordPress hosting with staging, automatic updates and backups."},{"title":"Shared and VPS hosting","copy":"cPanel-based shared plans through to virtual private servers."},{"title":"Backups","copy":"Scheduled backups with restore, retained in Canada."},{"title":"Bilingual support","copy":"Support in English and French, in Canadian time zones."}],"replaces":[{"service":"WP Engine","vendor":"WP Engine","note":"Both offer managed WordPress. WP Engine's edge tooling and staging workflow are more developer-oriented; WHC covers the same core job with Canadian residency."},{"service":"Bluehost","vendor":"Newfold Digital","note":"Directly comparable shared and WordPress hosting for small business."},{"service":"SiteGround","vendor":"SiteGround","note":"Comparable managed hosting tier. Confirm PHP versions and caching behaviour match your stack before moving."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per plan, per month, billed annually","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per month","plan":"Managed WordPress"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per month","plan":"Managed WordPress"},"note":"US hosts commonly advertise a low first-term rate that rises sharply on renewal. Compare renewal pricing, not introductory pricing."},"dataResidency":"Canada (Montréal, Beauharnois)","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"urls":{"website":"https://whc.ca"},"kcpp":{"path":"rest-adapter","level":"L2"},"logo":"/img/logos/whc.svg","logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.88,"hostedConfidence":0.87,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Canadian Geolocation Get closer to your clients with servers located on the Canadian East & West Coasts."}},{"slug":"objectstore","logo":"/img/logos/objectstore.webp","name":"ObjectStore.ca","company":"ObjectStore.ca","city":"Toronto","province":"ON","category":"Object storage","monogram":"OB","tagline":"S3-compatible object storage, resident in Canada.","summary":"ObjectStore.ca provides S3-compatible object storage from Canadian facilities. Because the API is S3-compatible, existing tooling — AWS CLI, rclone, the S3 SDKs — works against it without rewriting application code.","offerings":[{"title":"S3-compatible buckets","copy":"Works with existing S3 SDKs, the AWS CLI and rclone."},{"title":"Scoped credentials","copy":"Per-application access keys that can be rotated and revoked."},{"title":"Usage and transfer reporting","copy":"Per-bucket stored bytes and egress."},{"title":"Canadian residency","copy":"Objects stay in Canadian facilities."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Amazon S3","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"The closest substitution in the directory — S3-compatible means most tooling is a config change. S3's deeper feature set (lifecycle tiering, Glacier, cross-region replication) may not map one-to-one."},{"service":"Backblaze B2","vendor":"Backblaze","note":"Both position as lower-cost S3 alternatives. B2 is US-based; the difference here is residency."},{"service":"Cloudflare R2","vendor":"Cloudflare","note":"R2's zero-egress pricing is its main draw. Compare total cost including egress, not storage rate alone."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per GB stored, plus egress","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per TB / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per TB / month"},"note":"Egress is usually where S3 bills add up, not storage. Any honest comparison must state an egress volume and include it."},"dataResidency":"Canada","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"urls":{"website":"https://objectstore.ca"},"kcpp":{"path":"native-mcp","level":"L3"},"logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.81,"hostedConfidence":0.91,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Canadian Owned and Hosted Secure Cloud Storage. Our S3 compatible platform is 100% owned and operated in Canada, guaranteeing your data's sovereignty. Data residency only guarantees your data is stored in Canada. Our service goes further, e"}},{"slug":"zedmail","name":"Zedmail","company":"Ozonagram Ltd.","city":"Ottawa","province":"ON","category":"Email","monogram":"ZM","tagline":"Sovereign transactional email — API and SMTP, hosted in Canada.","summary":"Zedmail is a transactional email service operated from Ottawa, providing a REST API and SMTP relay for application-generated mail. It positions on jurisdiction: servers and data in Canada, outside the reach of the US CLOUD Act, GDPR-adequate for the EU, UK and Switzerland, and CASL-compliant by default.","offerings":[{"title":"SMTP relay","copy":"Drop-in SMTP for applications already sending mail."},{"title":"Sending domains","copy":"Domain verification with DKIM, SPF and DMARC guidance."},{"title":"Delivery analytics","copy":"Delivered, bounced, complained and suppressed, per domain."},{"title":"Suppression handling","copy":"Automatic suppression lists to protect sender reputation."}],"replaces":[{"service":"SendGrid","vendor":"Twilio","note":"Directly comparable transactional email. SendGrid's marketing-campaign features are a separate product line."},{"service":"Mailgun","vendor":"Sinch","note":"Comparable API-first transactional sending and analytics."},{"service":"Amazon SES","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"SES is the cheapest per-message option at volume but offers the least support and tooling. Compare on deliverability support, not rate alone."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per message, tiered by monthly volume","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per 1,000 messages"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per 1,000 messages"},"note":"Transactional email pricing is steeply tiered. State a monthly volume for the comparison to mean anything."},"dataResidency":"Canada — servers and recipient data","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"urls":{"website":"https://zedmail.com"},"kcpp":{"path":"native-mcp","level":"L3"},"logo":"/img/logos/zedmail.svg","logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.67,"hostedConfidence":0.92,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Hosted in Canada. Cloud Act–free. Your recipients' data never leaves Canadian jurisdiction — outside the US Cloud Act, and GDPR-adequate for the EU, UK, and Switzerland. Canadian infrastructure with no US parent gives you a clean, auditable","ownedVerifiedBy":"human","ownedNote":"Operated by Ozonagram Ltd, 110 Didsbury Road, Ottawa, Ontario — address published on zedmail.com."}},{"slug":"soomi","name":"Soomi","company":"Soomi","city":"Canada","province":"","category":"Collaboration","monogram":"SO","tagline":"A sovereign Canadian office suite.","summary":"Soomi is a Canadian-owned office suite covering mail, files, documents, spreadsheets, calendar and meetings under one login, positioned directly against Microsoft 365 and Google Workspace. Data is held on Canadian soil under Canadian law, with no ads, no tracking, and no training on customer content.","offerings":[{"title":"Business email","copy":"Mailboxes on your own domain, hosted in Canada."},{"title":"Files and sync","copy":"File storage, sync and sharing held in Canada."},{"title":"Documents and spreadsheets","copy":"Editors compatible with Excel and PowerPoint formats."},{"title":"Calendar and meetings","copy":"Private video calls and messaging, hosted in Canada."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Google Workspace","vendor":"Google","note":"Covers the same ground — mail, calendar, files, documents. Workspace's ecosystem depth, admin tooling and third-party integrations are far broader; check feature fit before moving a team."},{"service":"Microsoft 365","vendor":"Microsoft","note":"Soomi positions squarely against this and its editors read Excel and PowerPoint formats. Office desktop applications and Teams have no direct equivalent."},{"service":"Dropbox","vendor":"Dropbox","note":"Overlaps on file storage, sync and sharing. Dropbox's integration ecosystem is much larger."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per user, per month","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per user / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per user / month"},"note":"Per-seat comparisons look simple but hide feature gaps. Price the plan that actually covers what the team uses."},"dataResidency":"Canada — under Canadian ownership and Canadian law","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"urls":{"website":"https://soomi.ca/en/"},"kcpp":{"path":"assisted-bridge","level":"L1"},"needsReview":"Confirm company details, offerings and Canadian ownership. Not yet verified.","logo":"/img/logos/soomi.png","logoBg":"dark","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.75,"hostedConfidence":0.94,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Mail, files, documents, calendar, and meetings, built so your data and control stays with you, and in Canada. Your data stays in Canada. Encrypted in transit and at rest, with keys held in Canada. Store, sync, and share files, hosted in Can"}},{"slug":"cohere","logo":"/img/logos/cohere.svg","name":"Cohere","company":"Cohere Inc.","city":"Toronto","province":"ON","category":"AI & compute","monogram":"CO","tagline":"Canadian frontier language models built for enterprise.","summary":"Cohere is a Toronto-headquartered AI company building large language models for enterprise use — generation, embeddings and reranking — with an emphasis on retrieval-augmented generation, data control and private deployment. It is the most substantial Canadian alternative to the American frontier-model APIs, and supports deployment inside a customer's own cloud or on-premises environment, which keeps prompts and outputs out of a US-operated service.","offerings":[{"title":"Command models","copy":"Instruction-following generation models for chat, summarisation and extraction."},{"title":"Embed","copy":"Multilingual embedding models for search and retrieval."},{"title":"Rerank","copy":"Relevance reranking that improves existing search without replacing it."},{"title":"Private deployment","copy":"Run inside your own cloud or on-premises, so data never leaves your environment."}],"replaces":[{"service":"OpenAI API","vendor":"OpenAI","note":"The closest Canadian equivalent for enterprise language-model work. Cohere's strength is retrieval, embeddings and deployment control; if you depend on frontier reasoning or a specific model's behaviour, benchmark on your own task first."},{"service":"Azure OpenAI Service","vendor":"Microsoft","note":"Both offer enterprise terms and private networking. Azure has Canadian regions, so the difference is corporate jurisdiction and ownership rather than data location alone."},{"service":"Amazon Bedrock","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"Bedrock brokers many vendors' models, including Cohere's. Going direct changes the commercial relationship and the deployment options available."},{"service":"Pinecone","vendor":"Pinecone","note":"Partial overlap only — Embed and Rerank cover the vector and relevance half, but Cohere is not a hosted vector database. Pair it with one."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"Per million tokens, by model; private deployment quoted separately","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per 1M tokens"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per 1M tokens"},"note":"Token rates are only comparable between models of similar capability, and enterprise agreements rarely match list pricing. Price the workload, not the rate card."},"dataResidency":"Customer-selected, including private deployment","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":false,"urls":{"website":"https://cohere.com"},"kcpp":{"path":"rest-adapter","level":"L2"},"needsReview":"Confirm current product names and deployment options directly with Cohere before publishing — their lineup moves quickly.","logoBg":"light","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.84,"hostedConfidence":0.09,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Model Vault provides fully-isolated performance inference with end-to-end encryption."}},{"slug":"augure-ai","logo":"/img/logos/augure-ai.svg","name":"Augure","company":"Augure AI","city":"Toronto","province":"ON","category":"AI & compute","monogram":"AU","tagline":"Canadian sovereign AI — their own models, trained and run in Canada.","summary":"Augure builds language models and AI tools for Canada's regulated industries, with data sovereignty as the design constraint rather than a feature. It states that it has no US corporate parent and no US investors, keeps storage in Canada, and runs inference in Canada under zero-retention agreements. It operates its own production models — Rosedale One, Ossington 5 and Tofino 3 — rather than reselling another vendor's API.","offerings":[{"title":"Chat","copy":"Assistant for regulated work, with desktop and mobile apps for macOS, Windows, iOS and Android."},{"title":"Legal","copy":"Contract review oriented to Canadian law."},{"title":"Knowledge","copy":"Private question-answering over an organization's own material."},{"title":"Code","copy":"Terminal-based coding agent."},{"title":"Enterprise deployment","copy":"Custom deployments, fine-tuned models and managed infrastructure."}],"replaces":[{"service":"ChatGPT","vendor":"OpenAI","note":"Same job for assistant work, and Augure ships comparable desktop and mobile clients. Frontier-model capability is not equivalent — evaluate on your own task before moving a team across."},{"service":"Claude","vendor":"Anthropic","note":"Comparable assistant and coding-agent surface. The distinction Augure draws is jurisdiction and retention, not model parity — benchmark before switching."},{"service":"Microsoft 365 Copilot","vendor":"Microsoft","note":"Overlaps on organizational Q&A and drafting. Copilot's deep integration with Word, Excel and Teams has no equivalent here."},{"service":"Harvey","vendor":"Harvey AI","note":"Both do AI contract review; Augure's is oriented to Canadian law specifically. Harvey is far more established in large-firm workflows."}],"pricing":{"status":"published-list-price","model":"Per user, per month; free tier available","canadian":{"amount":20,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per user / month","plan":"Pro","source":"https://augureai.ca/","checkedAt":"2026-09-20"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per user / month","plan":"comparable tier"},"note":"Augure also lists a free tier and a Max plan at $80 CAD per user per month, with custom enterprise pricing. The American comparator is not published here because we have no cited figure for it."},"dataResidency":"Canada — storage and inference, under zero-retention agreements","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"urls":{"website":"https://augureai.ca","pricing":"https://augureai.ca"},"kcpp":{"path":"unknown","level":"L1"},"logoBg":"dark","attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.95,"hostedConfidence":0.95,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","hostingEvidence":"Storage in Canada; inference in Canada under zero-retention agreements — never US providers. Your conversations, documents and account data are stored on infrastructure in Canada. Zero data retention on inference — prompts are not kept afte"}},{"slug":"ehnow","name":"EH!","company":"TrailMix Technologies Inc.","city":"Parksville","province":"BC","category":"Social","monogram":"EH","tagline":"Canadian social network for sharing stories, supporting local, and discovering Canada.","summary":"EH! is a Canadian social network that says it is built for connection and designed for community. It offers ways to share stories, support local businesses, and discover Canada through people. The site states that data lives in Canada and that it is made and kept in Canada.","offerings":[{"title":"Community sharing","copy":"Post moments that matter and connect with neighbours, from your neighbourhood to the nation."},{"title":"Local business support","copy":"Tag shops, makers, and spots you love so neighbours can find hidden gems."},{"title":"Discover Canada","copy":"Explore neighbourhood gems and road-trip finds through the people who know them best."},{"title":"Privacy and data controls","copy":"The site says your data lives in Canada and your feed is yours to control."},{"title":"Live community map","copy":"A live map shows actual users on EH! with counts for users, cities, and countries."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Social networking","vendor":"Facebook","note":"EH! is Canada-focused and newer; the site does not claim Facebook’s scale, groups, Marketplace, or advertising tools."},{"service":"Social networking","vendor":"X (Twitter)","note":"EH! describes neighbourhood and community sharing; the site does not state real-time public news or creator monetization features."},{"service":"Local discovery","vendor":"Nextdoor","note":"EH! covers national discovery and local tagging; the site does not detail neighbourhood verification or private community features."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"See the company's own pricing page","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per user / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per user / month"}},"dataResidency":"Your data lives in Canada. Your feed is yours to control. Your data stays Canadian.","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":true,"logoBg":"dark","urls":{"website":"https://ehnow.ca"},"kcpp":{"path":"unknown","level":"L1"},"attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.9,"hostedConfidence":0.85,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","ownedVerifiedBy":"human","ownedNote":"Human-verified: TrailMix Technologies Inc., Parksville BC. Site states 'Built with pride in Canada' and 'Your data lives in Canada'.","hostingEvidence":"Your data lives in Canada. Your feed is yours to control. Your data stays Canadian."}},{"slug":"sync","name":"Sync","company":"Sync.com, Inc.","city":"Toronto","province":"ON","category":"File sharing","monogram":"SY","tagline":"Encrypted cloud storage for file sharing, backup, and collaboration.","summary":"Sync provides cloud storage with end-to-end encryption, file sharing, backup, and collaboration features. The company states it has over 2.7 million users, 950,000 business accounts, and users in over 180 countries. Its legal entity is Sync.com, Inc., based in Toronto, Ontario.","offerings":[{"title":"Secure cloud storage","copy":"Sync offers cloud storage with end-to-end encryption and zero-knowledge authentication."},{"title":"File sharing and collaboration","copy":"Users can create centralized folders and manage permissions for internal team members and external collaborators."},{"title":"Client file portal","copy":"Sync provides a custom-branded client file portal for sending and receiving files professionally."},{"title":"CloudFiles","copy":"Sync CloudFiles lets users browse cloud files directly from Windows Explorer and Mac Finder to free up local storage."},{"title":"Backup and recovery","copy":"Sync backs up files in real time and allows recovery of deleted files and previous versions."}],"replaces":[{"service":"Dropbox","vendor":"Dropbox, Inc.","note":"The site positions Sync as a Dropbox alternative, but it does not claim to replicate Dropbox's full third-party app ecosystem."},{"service":"Google Drive","vendor":"Google LLC","note":"The site positions Sync as a Google Drive alternative, but it does not state that it includes Google Docs or Sheets-like online editors."},{"service":"Box.com","vendor":"Box, Inc.","note":"The site positions Sync as a Box.com alternative, but it describes storage, sharing, and backup rather than Box's broader content management features."},{"service":"SharePoint","vendor":"Microsoft Corporation","note":"The site positions Sync as a SharePoint alternative, but it does not state that it provides intranet or Microsoft 365 integration."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"See the company's own pricing page","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per user / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per user / month"}},"dataResidency":"Data is replicated across multiple SOC-2 certified data center locations with SAS RAID storage, automatic failover and a 99.9% or better uptime SLA. Sync is saf","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":false,"logoBg":"light","urls":{"website":"https://www.sync.com"},"kcpp":{"path":"unknown","level":"L1"},"attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.89,"hostedConfidence":0.7,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","ownedVerifiedBy":"human","ownedNote":"Sync.com Inc., 155 Gordon Baker Road, Toronto ON — address published on sync.com.","hostingEvidence":"Data is replicated across multiple SOC-2 certified data center locations with SAS RAID storage, automatic failover and a 99.9% or better uptime SLA. Sync is safe to use, no matter where your business operates, with USA, EU / UK GDPR, and Ca"}},{"slug":"thinkon","name":"ThinkOn","company":"ThinkOn","city":"Etobicoke","province":"ON","category":"Hosting","monogram":"TO","tagline":"Cloud infrastructure with predictable billing and tested disaster recovery.","summary":"ThinkOn describes itself as a cloud service provider offering single-tenant private cloud, backup and disaster recovery, with no ingress or egress charges. Its infrastructure is built on alliances with hardware and technology vendors, and its team is organized around vendor-certified specialists. The company has core data centers in Canada, the United States, The Bahamas, Australia, and the United Kingdom.","offerings":[{"title":"Private cloud","copy":"Single-tenant private cloud that keeps data and the control plane in a U.S. facility the customer selects."},{"title":"Backup and disaster recovery","copy":"Disaster recovery that the company says is tested before an incident rather than during it."},{"title":"Predictable billing","copy":"Transparent billing with no ingress or egress fees."},{"title":"Sovereign cloud","copy":"Sovereign cloud solutions, including a Canadian Sovereign Cloud offering listed in the site navigation."},{"title":"Specialist support","copy":"Support from staff certified in the vendor technologies a customer's environment runs."}],"replaces":[{"service":"AWS","vendor":"Amazon Web Services","note":"Limited to ThinkOn's listed regions and service set; it does not match hyperscaler breadth or its large catalog of managed services."},{"service":"Microsoft Azure","vendor":"Microsoft","note":"ThinkOn's private cloud and DR focus does not cover Azure's PaaS, identity, and productivity ecosystem."},{"service":"Google Cloud","vendor":"Google","note":"No equivalent to Google's data analytics, machine learning, or global network footprint is described."},{"service":"Veeam-based in-house backup","vendor":"Veeam","note":"ThinkOn offers backup and DR as a service, but the site does not state which backup software or platform it uses."}],"pricing":{"status":"unverified","model":"See the company's own pricing page","canadian":{"amount":null,"currency":"CAD","unit":"per user / month"},"american":{"amount":null,"currency":"USD","unit":"per user / month"}},"dataResidency":"At rest, your data is encrypted and held in a facility you can name. Our single-tenant private cloud keeps your data and control plane in the U.S. facility you ","canadianOwned":true,"canadianHosted":false,"logoBg":"light","urls":{"website":"https://thinkon.com"},"kcpp":{"path":"unknown","level":"L1"},"attestation":{"ownedConfidence":0.87,"hostedConfidence":0.65,"checkedAt":"2026-09-20","method":"jev-systemone","ownedVerifiedBy":"human","ownedNote":"Toronto-headquartered, Canadian-owned; operates Canadian regions.","hostingEvidence":"At rest, your data is encrypted and held in a facility you can name. Our single-tenant private cloud keeps your data and control plane in the U.S. facility you select. Our global data center footprint continues to expand with core data cent"}},{"slug":"rewind","name":"Rewind","company":"Rewind Software Inc.","city":"Ottawa","province":"ON","category":"Backups","monogram":"RW","tagline":"Backup and recovery for SaaS and cloud data.","summary":"Rewind Software Inc. provides backup and recovery for SaaS applications such as Jira, GitHub, Confluence, Shopify, and more. It was founded in Ottawa, Canada in 2015 and reports over 25,000 customers in more than 100 countries. 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