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It's
Your Choice
Your headache or theirs
 Hear that sound? Feel the rumble? There is a geologic
shift taking place under the feet of small and
medium-sized companies and chances are you don't know
it, yet. The ruckus is managed services. Their promise
is to liberate you from the awful side of computer
ownership.
"Awful? Define that, please." Fair enough.
aw•ful [aw-fuhl] – adjective If you don't have an IT
Department chances are a smooth running, trouble-free
network will be a temporary condition. 2) When something
breaks someone has to fix it. 3) And, pay for it. 4)
And, if that something gets in the way of running your
business, you sleep less and the bottom line gets
trashed. 5) If you do have an IT Department, you waste
an expensive and valuable asset chasing around mundane
tasks.
Managed
services are provided by outside tech companies, such as
J4Systems. These firms offer many kinds of
services, including remotely monitoring maintaining and
managing your network and computers. How many of you own
insurance of some flavor? Managed services too are
designed to mitigate risk.
There was a time when handing off an internal
function to someone else was the exclusive luxury of
large companies. Today, plenty of small businesses have
discovered that this same technique is just the answer
to drive down the cost of their digital tools and keep
them focused on their core competencies, whether they
have an IT Department or not.
Often, managed services focus on prevention and,
when necessary, a fast remedy. The purpose of some
services, such as the ones we offer at J4Systems, anticipate,
detect and fix problems, before the inevitable occurs.
Managed services can also be committed to the day-to-day
maintenance that's absolutely necessary and too often
ignored.
For those with an IT Department in a managed services
environment, it means you can keep your techs committed
to more problematic issues and allow the routine tasks
to be managed more cost effectively by someone else. For
those without an IT Department it ensures your resources
are pointed toward your business plan, rather than the
computer that's gummed up the works.
You have plenty of options from which you can choose
those services that are most appropriate for you. Among
them are managed voice network services, data network
services, converged/IP data services, email/messaging,
web hosting, content delivery, security and storage,
backup/recovery/business continuity, application,
managed desktop, LAN and help-desk management services.
There are several reasons why a managed services
solution makes sense for many.
First and foremost, the technical sophistication
required by an internal IT staff person to manage a
network will increase your costs. Unless, you can hire
highly experienced technology staff and afford to keep
them current with the latest training, you run the risk
of making your data network—a critical business
asset—vulnerable to security threats.
Consider the fact that computer viruses and software
bugs number in the thousands each year, making it almost
a full-time job just to stay current with what patches
are required. That doesn't include the actual time it
might take to implement the fix or patch the problem.
Could you benefit from managed services? How would
you know? If so, how do you choose your provider?
To get answers to these question and any others you may
have regarding managed services, contact
YOUR COMPANY
today!
Reprinted with permission from DLP
Technologies |
