AI-Ready Infrastructure
The platform AI actually needs: compute, storage and data paths sized for inference. Models run locally, on your own hardware and your side of the firewall, so no operational data leaves your perimeter.
IT and OT infrastructure, built for AI
Infrastructure for the AI era.
AI doesn't run on presentations; it runs on networks, compute, storage and clean data paths, and most organizations don't have a substrate that can carry it. Propulse designs, modernizes and automates the infrastructure industrial and mid-market organizations actually run on, from the plant floor to the cloud.
Sectors
- Manufacturing and pulp and paper
- Industrial and SCADA operations
- Mid-market IT
- Multi-site and post-merger organizations
Services
IT/OT Architecture
Drawing the boundary properly. Network segmentation, zone and conduit design, and secure data flow from the plant floor to the cloud without exposing what should never leave the site.
Infrastructure Modernization
Datacentre consolidation, virtualization and Kubernetes platforms, hybrid cloud on Azure, AWS and GCP, and the messy post-merger integration work most firms would rather not quote on.
Automation and Platform Delivery
Infrastructure as code, CI/CD pipelines, configuration management and self-service platforms, so your team stops repeating itself and starts shipping.
Security and Resilience
Segmentation, identity and access, backup and disaster recovery, and audit readiness for environments where downtime is measured in lost production, not lost pageviews.
You don't get a slide deck. You get a running system.
How we work
01
Assess
A short, fixed-scope engagement. We map what you actually have, not what the documentation claims. You get a written picture and a prioritized list.
02
Architect
A target design with the trade-offs written down, costed, and defensible in front of your board and your auditors.
03
Land it
We stay through the build. Hands on the keyboard, alongside your team, until it runs in production and your people own it.
About
Propulse is led by Ben Peries, an IT and OT infrastructure specialist with 15 years across enterprise environments, spanning test and automation systems integration, pulp and paper, and plastics manufacturing. He has led teams through post-merger transformations, managed an estate of more than 4,000 servers, and driven security and cloud modernization programs. People first. Security minded. Technical enough to get his hands dirty. Based in Quebec, working in English and French.
Practice areas
- 15 years
- 4,000+ servers
- Post-merger transformations
- IT and OT environments