What percentage of your budget is allocated to IT? Is it enough? Are you sure?
Let’s take for example, what you spend on your much loved car. Regular MOT’s, regular servicing, regular Road Tax and then there’s the fuel, oil and water to keep it running, the regular cleaning and replacement of essential components as and when required. 
It all adds up, but if you value your car and your priority is your safety, the safety of other road users, comfort, speed and reliability, then you will budget for your car to ensure that it gets you from A to Z whenever you need it.
The same principle applies to IT. You can’t expect your IT infrastructure to be reliable, fast, regularly maintained and updated, safe and secure, if you don’t want to spend the money. Quite simply, you get what you pay for!
We’ve heard on numerous occasions where business owners haven’t wanted to invest in their IT and then they wonder why they are struggling to work. On the flip side, we’ve heard from many business owners who do realise the importance of investing in IT and their businesses are flying ahead because the infrastructure in place is properly managed and supported and any possible problems are dealt with before they happen as a result of a proactive managed service provider.
Take your current situation…………..what would happen if your server crashed, if there was a powercut or if there was a fire or a flood or a nasty virus? Are you fully protected against data loss? How do you know? If your data is backed up, how safe is it and how quickly can you recover your data in the event of a disaster? Do you know? Do you ‘put up with’ slow running pc’s because it would cost too much to replace them? Are there other options – perhaps running virtual desktops? These are just a sample of the questions business owners should be asking themselves and then following this up with a review of the IT budget.
Because we are experts at IT and IT is our passion, we know the importance of regular monitoring to PREVENT any problems and possible downtime. We care about the businesses we support and we want them to get the maximum benefit out of their IT infrastructure. This is why we are transparent about how we manage our clients’ systems and networks through thorough regular monitoring and maintenance, with safe and secure backups which are quick and easy to recover and more.
We so often take IT for granted and it’s only when a disaster or failure occurs that we realise and appreciate the importance of our investment.
So, our advice to any business owners who want to be ahead of their competitors because they have better, faster, more secure systems in place, is to think about your current arrangements, what you spend and then consider what could be improved. You may not even be aware of all the new technologies and solutions out there available to you, so be sure to ask the advice of an honest, reliable and expert IT professional……..
