Managed Services
Are Your IT Systems a Business Distraction?
Today’s business relies on IT. But your computer systems should be a complimentary tool set to your core business, not a major distraction. Advantage Computers Managed IT Services will look after your IT systems, leaving you to look after your business.
- Managed Services provides known operating costs facilitating budgeting and freeing up capital for other business use.
- Managed Services removes the necessity for regular server hardware upgrades and associated business decisions involved in any large capital purchase decisions.
- Self-owned servers involve a long term commitment to the technology being purchased, whereas Managed Services can be upgraded or downgraded as dictated by business requirements
- Managed Services decrease in-house support costs such as addressing technical break/fix issues and managing backup systems. Note that these break/fix issues incur additional significant costs related to lost productivity, customer dissatisfaction and lost revenue opportunities.
- Managed Services provide not just a robust Disaster Recovery program but also crucial Business Continuity (focus on keeping the IT infrastructure up with technology such as power redundancy, replication and fault tolerance). For instance, recovery from the traditional tape backup involves restoring yesterday’s data (if not corrupt) and rebuilding the server. This could take 50 labour hours costing thousands of dollars as well as lost productivity. If a restore is required, Managed Data Services typically restores data that is less than 2 hours old and lost productivity time is typically measured in minutes.
Advantage Managed Solutions are billed monthly. Advantage Computers has Manawatu’s only commercial Tier 3 Datacentre offering you the same resiliency and security as the largest of enterprises.
We welcome the opportunity to investigate your IT concerns. Advantage Computers can provide solutions that will help you sleep better at night.
