Why Proactive Network Monitoring & Management Is Essential?
Would you like to know about problems on your network before they happen? This is surely a question with an obvious answer, but you would be surprised how many organizations don’t have any monitoring on their network today.
The problem is that failure to pre-empt and react quickly to network errors not only costs businesses money, but also risks compromising their reputation, one of the most valuable assets for any organization.
Once upon a time network monitoring of assets and applications such as servers, network fabric and applications, would have been something reserved for the very large organizations or perhaps carriers.
They had to provide consistently high levels of service to their customers and built Network Operation Centers to ensure resilient 24/7 monitoring to help them identify and solve any server issues before they developed into serious problems. Today it is an essential best practice for organizations large and small – without appropriate trouble shooting in place one can only sit back and wait for IT issues to manifest themselves, by which time the damage is often already done.
Without the appropriate support infrastructure in place, businesses are exposing themselves to high risk.
Growing demands for high standards of IT services as a result of our ever increasing fast paced technology culture means that the IT expert must be continually available and ready to help with any networking issues.
Today, the cost outlay required for businesses to invest in resilient network monitoring and network management is significantly less than it once was, as a result of rapidly developing technologies which have enabled even the smallest start-up to strengthen their network defenses.
However, for businesses to have control it is essential that infrastructure is monitored in a holistic way and reported on in near real-time, taking into account priority of assets to ensure that any network problems or errors are quickly intercepted and prevented from impacting on the smooth running of a business, and mitigating risk.
Some Key Benefits of Proactive Network Monitoring include:
Detect problems early to prevent disasters:
If you are continuously monitoring your systems you are more likely to pick up on any warning signs and can step in before the problem escalates and affects the end user.
Increase reliability:
Restoring vital equipment to full functionality is far easier when proactive network monitoring catches the problem early – before damage spreads throughout the entire network, negatively impacting its reliability. By identifying and correcting small problems quickly, before they have a chance to develop into a crisis, equipment reliability can be dramatically improved. Network downtime can be a nightmare for your business, but with real-time monitoring it’s possible to resolve issues before you’re even aware that they exist.
Improve productivity and performance:
Identify areas where improvement should be sought and fine tune your infrastructure so your system performs as it should. Close monitoring helps your team to understand how the network works and how your systems interact with one another. Rather than waiting for problems to occur before you realize there is a problem, you can proactively identify any areas that are vulnerable.
Prevent & reduce downtime & business losses:
Downtime not only affects your end user’s experience and productivity, it ultimately affects the company’s bottom line. Monitoring the health of your IT environment can help you identify trends and patterns that occur within your business that cause disruption. Taking a proactive approach to monitoring involves more than taking information at face value, just because your network is functioning it doesn’t mean it’s running efficiently and future problems won’t occur.
Avoid expensive breakdowns:
IT professionals don’t have to wait for users to report problems before developing a strategy to address the issues. Instead, the constant monitoring of a system actively looks for issues to solve before they get out of control. If problems go unchecked until they turn into a crisis, the resulting expense to rectify the issue can be a tough pill to swallow, especially after suffering through whatever downtime was just experienced. There is no way to properly budget for unpredictable, reactive IT expenses. Quickly determining the root cause of any network issue reduces diagnostic time from hours to minutes, resulting in a substantial cost savings.
Enable data driven insights and decisions:
Monitoring your infrastructure efficiently means you have access to critical information that is valuable for not only the IT department but other internal stakeholders. Company directors have very little knowledge about how their IT environments are truly performing. The only time they are aware is when there are disruptions and the business is at risk. Monitoring your environment ensures that you can reduce risk and proactively manage systems.
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Managed IT Professionals can help ensure safe, efficient and reliable network operation throughout your small business IT environment. We can help you fully optimize your network environment with next-generation proactive network monitoring and proactive network management, monitoring & managing every endpoint throughout your organization. Contact us today to schedule a free consultation! Call (201) 300-3825, contact us, or schedule a free consultation.
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