About This Lesson
Getting a call that your business network is done is unsettling and frustrating. You may have equipment that is top of the line, but all too often an IT department doesn’t get the advance notice needed to prevent performance issues. This leaves you having to hear about a problem from a customer or user who registers a complaint. Once you know you have a problem, you can get right to work, but it costs a lot of time and money between the lost productivity, end-user satisfaction and the manpower to resolve the outage.
The Need for Speed
When you are working with tech at the advanced level of today’s digital age, you need constant monitoring of wireless devices, virtual services, switches, routers and various applications across users. Having plenty of warning can be a life-saver when it comes to fixing IT issues since a minor hiccup is easier to deal with than a complete outage. Getting to the problem quickly and efficiently can be done more effectively when you have a 24/7 network management system in place. There are several ways of implementing a monitoring system that can ease the IT burden and reduce your fears of network downtime.
Beat the Outages
There are many things that can contribute to an IT outage, such as configuration issues, human error, and environmental factors. The most simple way to prevent these from happening is to get a monitoring system. Network monitoring puts a visual on all the different areas of live network performance at once, so the minute something starts to lag, your IT team can jump on it.
Get a Quick Fix
For your company, and downtime is lost money. Whether it be the labor for the IT guys, the lost revenue from sales calls being made or lost productivity from employees across the board, you can’t afford to have your network malfunction. With a monitoring system in place, problem-solving becomes quicker and more efficient. You don’t have to hunt around for where the issue started and backtrack information. Monitoring software will provide a live network map that can direct you to the heart of the problem and provide status windows that show the timeline of trouble. Adding an automation tool to your system will fix the problem automatically, without needing to call in someone from IT.
Bank Your Return On Investment
It is common for IT departments to be overloaded with complex projects, outdated equipment, or the time and staff needed to stay on track with all the demands. A management tool can bring your budget back under control and deliver an immediate return on investments. You won’t need to use as many employees to search out and fix network performance issues. This puts critical time back into their day to work on other pressing projects. The absence of downtime from a failed system cuts down on lost productivity and the expense of resources needed to fix the outages or try to work around them. Money back into your IT budget can be used for upgrades or additional staff.
Manage the Constant Changes
The rate at which technology is continually changed and upgraded, in addition to the innovation in connected devices, can be too much an IT department to handle. IT needs continue to grow, with IoT needs expecting to revolutionize business-related needs by 2020. Wireless devices, cloud technologies and internet-enabled sensors are changing the complexities of networks, requiring increasing flexibility and reliability in monitoring the dozens of IP assets your company may end up with. A management system puts everything in one easy-to-monitor place and simplifies troubleshooting.
Guard Against Security Threats
Cybersecurity threats are a growing threat to companies of all sizes. Many don’t have the budget for a top of the line intrusion detection software. Network monitoring software can guard your data against breaches or hacking. The overview the software provides gives an earlier glimpse of something that may be out of the ordinary.
You can save your company a lot of time and money with the right network monitoring software. It will ease the burden on your already overloaded IT department.