Tag Archives: Managed Network

Network Protection – Are you being too cheap?

Think back to the last time your server went down and you were not able to conduct business – Do you remember how frustrating that was? Or, maybe you experienced a virus or data-erasing disaster – Do you remember how difficult and expensive that was to resolve?

In today’s business environment, there are very few business activities that do not rely heavily on your computer network, email and data programs. When any of these components work improperly, business grinds to a halt – and you lose valuable time and money!

With technology becoming ever more imperative to your business operations and hackers and viruses becoming more sophisticated about accessing your network, you simply cannot afford not to monitor the health and security of your network at all times. A network monitoring system is a great way for a trained professional to watch over your computer network system for slow or failing components, security breaches, and alarms that signify trouble is brewing. It can also detect signs that your backup solution is not working, that you are running out of space on the server, or that a firewall is not functioning properly.

The question is this – If network monitoring is so important, why aren’t more small businesses insisting that their IT service provider put a system in place?

Lack of knowledge – The reality is that many businesses do have their systems monitored and the bigger and more sophisticated the business is, the more critical this becomes. Unfortunately, many IT providers that service small businesses do not know of or have the tools to provide monitoring services. As a result, many small business owners are not being offered this critically important service.

Complacency – If it isn’t broken, why fix it? Please allow us to rephrase this in more realistic terms – If it isn’t broken, it eventually will be and it will cost valuable time and money! Remember, we do not wait to get robbed before we start locking our doors…we lock our doors to prevent a robbery. Network monitoring is an extremely important preventive measure that On-Site Tech Support utilizes to ensure that businesses do not get robbed of valuable time and money due to computer system failures.

DedicatedSolutions Data Center: Adding Value to Your Business

ManagedThe Data Center is one of the main topics of discussion at meetings of IT equipment worldwide. It is crucial for a company to work more efficiently and generate profits as firms rely heavily on an enormous amount of information stored in data processing centers. In this way, organizations are still trying to reduce costs through simplification and improvement of Data Centers.

Initiatives such as migration, deployment and Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) are some of the first steps taken by the CIOs to increase the efficiency of data storage on a Data Center. The role of a data center in the designing, deploying and managing services play a crucial role in receiving high-performance results.

The data centers are enormously important in the present day for companies acting as e-commerce and sales, healthcare or any other business that depend on the systems to access patient information. To get an idea of the data center importance, 20% of data stored in data centers in the coming years will be linked to digital patient records. It will enable a surgeon to access information from a patient in the operating room itself or ambulances that have access to accurate data during a rescue.

With each passing year, data center brings many changes, developments and new technologies, especially in the area of storage and servers. For example, to support the new virtual environments found in cloud computing applications, it is necessary that data centers should provide tools and support energy with a dynamic, virtualized environment.

Therefore, the systems and infrastructure of the old data centers do not work as well as the latest facilities. Early systems were designed to a more stable environment, with fewer variation data storage and less scalability. Some early systems also lead to inactivity of a data center due to the following:

  • Human errors
  • lack of standard operating procedures (SOPs), operations maintenance protocol (MOP) and emergency procedures.
  • Lack of preventive measures, including testing and maintenance arrangements
  • Failure conservation or replace the uninterruptible power supply
  • Lack of redundancy, resulting in failures in systems using backups
  • Fault in cooling the data center

The Modern Data Center

The data center is a critical component of any IT department. Therefore, it is essential that data center is designed to deliver services flexibly and dynamically, following the currently required technology and sustainability trends.

Two essential characteristics of a data center are flexibility and scalability. These are necessary for almost all business activities currently online. Therefore, data center projects should be designed with an appropriate infrastructure to support all services and enterprise systems, so that it allows the perfect operation of the center and deliver future growth through adaptation to emerging technologies.

The modern data center infrastructure is designed to increase efficiency through lower energy expenditure, thus optimizing costs and security. These data centers meet some guidelines that the IT team can trust to mitigate system downtime. The service providers should be alert to improve the performance of data centers.

  • Build excellent facilities and establish a computerized maintenance program for each piece of equipment
  • Create a training program teams that define when and how a team should respond to the events of inactivity
  • Institute a quality assurance program that allows operation of local infrastructure as per customer expectations
  • Ensuring the physical protection of the site by building walls, doors and window to provide additional security against natural disasters.

Making full use of our technologies, you can achieve significant improvements in performance of the data center compared to the more common ones. These include:

  • Significant increase in performance of servers and storage systems
  • Energy saving
  • Reduction of licensing costs
  • Reducing the need for space in the computer centers
  • Significant optimization in the management of editing and release
  • Improvement of ROI (Return of Investment)

With many years of experience in the design and successful implementation of Data Center projects, DedicatedSolutions has helped many public and private organizations to transform their communications infrastructure and investment in IT infrastructure. DedicatedSolutions offers high availability and 100% uptime guaranteed! Your server will be hosted in a Tier III or Tier IV data center based on your choice. All data centers are SSAE16 certified, as well as PCI conform. Since we have multiple carriers at each data center location, we can guarantee you an 100% uptime on all our network connections! Besides the uptime, we also guarantee and warrant you that you will have unlimited bandwidth with our unlimited solutions.