IT support for Halifax offices, professional firms and clinics
Law and accounting practices off Barrington and Hollis, engineering firms in the North End, physio and dental clinics on Quinpool Road and in Clayton Park: we act as the IT department for Halifax businesses with roughly 5 to 50 people. One flat monthly fee covers the help desk, security, backups and network, delivered by a senior systems administrator you can name.
IT that holds up to client audits, insurers and busy Mondays
Professional firms and clinics in Halifax are held to a higher standard than most small businesses. Clients expect confidentiality, insurers ask for proof of multi-factor sign-in and tested backups, and nobody can afford a morning without email.
Help desk and account control. Fast remote support for your staff, plus proper onboarding and offboarding, so an articling student or locum gets access on day one and loses it the day they leave.
Security that satisfies an underwriter. Endpoint detection, multi-factor authentication, encrypted laptops and email filtering, documented in a way your cyber insurance renewal form actually asks for. Our IT Secure plan adds 24/7 threat monitoring and written PIPEDA policies.
Backups you have seen restored. Daily backups of computers, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace and file shares, with scheduled restore tests. For firms bound by retention rules, such as the six years CRA expects for business records, we set retention to match.
Managed IT for Halifax businesses
Three flat per-user plans, month-to-month after a 90-day onboarding:
Built around how Halifax offices actually run
Each kind of Halifax business has its own weak spots. These are the ones we are called in to fix most often.
Downtown professional firms
Law, accounting and advisory offices around Barrington, Hollis and Lower Water Street, often in older buildings where thick walls and shared risers make Wi-Fi and cabling harder than they look.
Clinics & health practices
Physio, dental, optometry and counselling practices on Quinpool, Spring Garden and in Clayton Park, where health information falls under Nova Scotia’s Personal Health Information Act and every workstation in a treatment room needs locking down.
Engineering & design studios
North End and Hydrostone firms with large drawing sets, NAS boxes that have outgrown themselves and staff who split time between site and office.
Bayers Lake & Clayton Park offices
Growing companies in newer mainland office parks that need a proper firewall, segmented guest Wi-Fi and a plan for the next ten hires.
Lower software bills without upsetting your staff
Halifax firms often pay for Microsoft 365, Dropbox, a password manager, Slack and a stack of add-ons, all priced in US dollars and all going up. Once your IT is stable, we can help you replace some or all of it.
Common moves include email to Fastmail while staff keep using Outlook, client files to Nextcloud with secure share links, and firm-wide passwords to Vaultwarden. Big Tech Escape packages start at $1,500 CAD, done in stages and after hours.
We deploy on Canadian-owned hosting when data control matters. A Canadian data centre run by a US company is still subject to US law. For firms that hold privileged or health information, that difference matters, and we will explain the trade-offs plainly. Explore Big Tech alternatives →
Popular with Halifax firms and clinics
Fixed-price projects with training and a 30-day fix-it period:
Open Stack Forge · Serving Halifax
Based in Lower Sackville, a short drive down the 102. On-site visits across downtown Halifax and the peninsula, Clayton Park, Fairview, Spryfield and Bayers Lake, plus Dartmouth and Bedford offices on the same trip.
info@openstackforge.ca · 902-706-8753 · Lower Sackville, Nova ScotiaMonday to Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Atlantic
Managed IT in Halifax: common questions
Can you help our Halifax firm pass a cyber insurance questionnaire?
Yes. Insurers now routinely ask about multi-factor authentication, endpoint detection, backups kept offline and staff training. We put those controls in place, document them, and help you answer the renewal form accurately so there are no surprises at claim time.
Our clinic handles patient records. What changes for us?
Health information in Nova Scotia falls under the Personal Health Information Act as well as general privacy expectations. We lock down treatment-room workstations, encrypt devices, restrict who can see records and keep an access trail. Our IT Secure plan adds written privacy and security policies and an incident response plan.
How quickly can someone get to a downtown Halifax office?
Most problems are fixed remotely within the hour. When hands are needed, we typically schedule a same-day or next-morning visit, and critical outages for IT Complete and IT Secure clients get a response within one business hour.
How do your rates compare to other Halifax managed IT providers?
Our plans are published: IT Essentials is $89 per user per month, IT Complete is $139 and IT Secure is $189, month-to-month after a 90-day onboarding. Many Halifax MSPs only quote after a sales call, charge per device on top of per user, bill on-site time and projects separately, and ask for one- to three-year contracts. Compare the total monthly cost, what is included and the contract length, not just the headline rate.