Providing Two Decades of IT Experience
About Burlington IT Services
Burlington IT Services is the Burlington-market practice of Griffin IT Group. Griffin IT Group is the technology company that delivers every engagement described on this site — the same engineers, standards and service agreements used across our regional client base.
01Who we are
A regional technology practice, not a franchise
Griffin IT Group has spent two decades building, securing and operating business technology for organizations across the Niagara and Halton corridor. Our office is in Thorold; our work extends across the region, with Burlington one of the markets we actively serve.
We are deliberately clear about that structure. Burlington IT Services is a local-market website operated by Griffin IT Group, not a separate legal company and not a satellite office with a rented address. When you engage us, you engage Griffin IT Group, and the contract, insurance, escalation path and engineering team are all the same ones our other clients rely on.
What has kept the practice working over that period is unglamorous: documentation that is current, monitoring that is tuned, patching that actually completes, backups that are tested, and engineers who have seen enough environments to recognize a problem before it becomes an incident.
02How we work
Six operating principles
These are the commitments that shape how engagements run, and the ones clients hold us to.
Document everything
If it is not documented, it does not exist. Environment records, credentials and configuration are maintained continuously and belong to the client.
Secure by default
Baseline security controls are part of standard delivery. We do not hold back MFA or endpoint protection as an upsell.
Fix causes, not tickets
Recurring issues get root-cause work. A ticket volume that never falls is a sign the underlying problem was never addressed.
Say what we think
Including when a proposal is premature, a product is wrong for the environment, or the honest answer is that nothing needs to change yet.
Price predictably
Fixed monthly fees for agreed scope and quoted projects, so finance can forecast and nobody hesitates to open a ticket.
Stay reachable
Named contacts, defined escalation, and engineers who know your environment rather than a rotating first line reading a script.
03Capability
What our engineers work on daily
- Microsoft 365 and Entra ID administration
- Azure and AWS infrastructure
- Endpoint management and Intune
- Firewalls, switching and enterprise wireless
- Windows Server and virtualization
- Backup, replication and recovery testing
- Endpoint detection and response operations
- Email security and domain authentication
- Line-of-business application support
- Network design for multi-site organizations
- Migrations, cutovers and site deployments
- Technology strategy and budget planning
04Location & coverage
Based in Thorold, serving Burlington and the surrounding region
Burlington is an area we serve rather than the location of our office. Remote support covers the majority of day-to-day work, with onsite engineering scheduled or dispatched when the work requires hands on hardware.
Griffin IT Group
28 Front Street South, 2nd FloorThorold, ON L2V 1W9
Providing Two Decades of IT Experience
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