Today, all business is highly dependent on their I.T. systems being available 24×7. Downtime, especially in today’s troubled economy, must be avoided at all costs. Using a IT service provider who offers guaranteed uptime services is a way to reduce unnecessary downtime. Here are eight areas that an uptime services focused IT service provider can increase your system uptime:
- Managed and Consolidated Maintenance Contract
There are a variety of maintenance bundles available in the marketplace, designed to meet your budget, increase visibility of your installed systems and keep your mission critical IT infrastructure at 24×7 operational standards. A dedicated provider maintenance team can set up and maintain your IT system to achieve 99.99% uptime, freeing up your resources to perform high value business functions.
- Onsite Add/Move/Change Hardware Services
An onsite service technician is only a couple clicks away, to perform the service work you require. A personalized web portal can be provided to request pre-contracted service engineers to perform add/change/move tasks to your installed infrastructure. Service rates are pre-negotiated, with only approved personnel granted access to the service request portal. All service billings are consolidated and billed at month end to reduce complexity and administrative costs. All of these changes will reduce your IT service costs.
- Remote Infrastructure Services
Imagine a scalable, configurable suite of services to remotely monitor, manage and report on IT infrastructures. A variety of remote support services are available to meet your specific needs, including: network, server, applications, and application infrastructure support and monitoring services. Services are available for specific hours of the day, providing necessary staff augmentation, at the hours that are most critical to your business.
- Server Optimization Services
Get the most out of what you have! Server optimization services can assist you in optimizing the environment you currently have. Don’t get caught investing in new equipment when you are not using your current equipment to its full potential.
- Storage Optimization Services
Storage is a self fulfilling prophecy of ever increasing demands. The more reliant we become on our technologies, the greater our demand becomes to store the data we have generated and then mine it based on constantly changing attributes. Through storage optimization services, your provider can assist you with developing a strategy for your storage environment, develop best practices on how to manage your storage, develop reporting and analytics against your stored data, and consolidate and virtualize your storage to do more with what you have.
- Server Security Services
Your service provider can provide you with necessary services to secure your servers by providing mission critical applications to your end users, secure your email database and content from insider threats, protect your network from inside and outside threats and provide compliance and vulnerability management per industry compliance regulations.
- Business Continuity and Recovery Services
Where will you recover to if disaster hits your I.T. facility or region of business? Disaster comes in many sizes and shapes. It can be a broken water pipe that floods the building, a local fire or something larger striking an entire region. Through custom Business Continuity and Recovery Service contracts, specifically tailored to meet your recovery requirements and budget, you can rest assured that you will recover from a declared disaster with minimal impact to your I.T. operation.
- Data Mobility Services
Moving your stored data from one place to another is a daunting task. Whether it’s a one-time move or a continuous replication, ensuring that your data was transferred correctly, without loss or corruption, is critical to your continued success. Through a variety of data mobility and replication products, a provider can build an environment that you can trust, to ensure your data is being replicated securely and accurately.
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