Managed IT That Keeps Your Systems Running
CreateITivity is a managed service provider for Canadian businesses. We host, monitor, patch, secure and back up the systems your operations depend on, from a Mississauga team that also builds software and runs search programs.
- Hosting built for fault tolerance
- Round-the-clock monitoring and patching
- Layered security with recovery plans you have tested
How does CreateITivity handle Managed IT Services?
Managed IT services from Mississauga: resilient hosting, high availability, network and system administration, cybersecurity and tested disaster recovery.
- 24/7/365 — Monitoring coverage
- RTO/RPO — Recovery plans built to your targets
- Canada — Hosting and backup locations available
- One team — Infrastructure, software and search
What is getting in your way?
Choose the issue costing you the most. Each one leads to the service built to fix it.
Our Managed IT Services principles
How we approach Managed IT Services
The working rules we apply to each client, so progress builds month on month and the plan stays on course.
Problems found before users notice
Telemetry on CPU, memory, disks, thermals, bandwidth and latency feeds a structured escalation process, so most issues are dealt with before they become outages.
No single points of failure
Redundant power, multiple carrier feeds and automated failover are designed in from the start, so one failed component does not take your service down with it.
Security and recovery as one plan
Firewalls, SIEM log auditing and patching reduce the chance of an incident. Encrypted off-site backups and standby systems decide how quickly you recover if one happens anyway.
Engineers who also build software
The same team writes applications and websites, so hosting, deployments and performance tuning are handled by people who understand the code running on the servers.
Downtime costs more than the infrastructure that prevents it
When an ordering system, client portal or line-of-business application stops, staff stand idle and customers go elsewhere. Most outages trace back to something predictable: a disk filling up, a missed patch, a single server with no failover, a backup nobody had tested. Managed infrastructure deals with those causes in advance. We design the environment so it can lose a component and keep running, watch it continuously, and keep it current. Your team spends its time on the business instead of on recovering from avoidable incidents.
- Redundancy designed in, not added after an outage
- Continuous monitoring with clear escalation
- Patching on a schedule, tested before production
- Backups that are restored in practice, not just taken
Built around Canadian privacy rules and data residency
Many Canadian organizations need to know where their data lives. Customers ask, contracts require it, and privacy law sets out duties for safeguarding personal information under PIPEDA, Quebec Law 25 and, for Ontario health custodians, PHIPA. We can keep hosting and backups in Canadian facilities and cloud regions, document how data is protected, and structure logging and access control so you can answer those questions with confidence.
- Hosting and backups can stay in Canada
- Access control and audit logging documented
- Safeguards aligned with PIPEDA and Law 25 duties
- Support on Eastern Time from Mississauga
Who should run your infrastructure? Often, both together.
How a stretched internal team compares with a managed service provider on the work that keeps systems available.
Internal IT alone
- One or two people cover everything
- Monitoring stops when they are off shift
- Patching waits behind urgent requests
- Recovery plans rarely get tested
With CreateITivity
- Engineers watching around the clock
- Patching staged and tested on a schedule
- Redundancy and failover designed in
- Disaster recovery tested against your targets
Most of our clients keep their internal IT people. We take on the hosting, monitoring, patching, security and recovery work that is hard to staff around the clock, and your team gets back to the projects that move the business.
Working together
The steps in a Managed IT Services project
Each stage has a clear output, so your team can see what is in progress and what comes next.
Assess the environment
We document your servers, network, applications, security controls and backups, and agree recovery targets and priorities with you.
Design for resilience
We plan hosting, redundancy, monitoring, security layers and backup schedules around what your business cannot afford to lose.
Migrate and harden
Workloads move in planned stages, configurations are hardened and monitoring goes live before anything is handed over.
Run, report and improve
We monitor, patch, respond and test recovery on an ongoing basis, with regular reporting on health, capacity and risk.
The Managed IT Services services
Every card below is a complete service. Many clients start with one and add another once results show.
How we measure
The figures we track
Each project reports against measures agreed at the start, shown in a dashboard your team can open at any time.
- A named senior specialist leads each account
- Progress shown in live Looker Studio dashboards
- Measured on leads and revenue
Managed IT Services questions
Straight answers on Managed IT Services
What Canadian owners and their teams usually ask first.
What does a managed service provider actually do?
Do we have to replace our internal IT team?
Can our data stay in Canada?
What kinds of environments do you manage?
How do you handle security?
How do you plan disaster recovery?
How does onboarding work?
How does managed IT connect to your SEO and development work?
Something we did not cover? Ask us directly
Free review · done by an engineer, not a script
Find the weak spots in your systems before they fail
Tell us what you run, where it is hosted and what has gone wrong lately. One of our engineers looks it over by hand and sends back the first fixes we would make, whether or not you hire us. Marketing and development questions are welcome too.