Kent Network Solutions, Inc. (Kent) is an IT Service Organization (ITSO) providing outsourced Business IT Systems (BITS), and network engineering services.
Companies know that network uptime and system availability are critical business functions and must be maintained, but most companies don’t know how to economically achieve this.
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Network Solutions Lowers the Cost of Doing Business
A study conducted by The Gartner Group, (http://www.gartner.com/) showed lost productivity from network downtime accounts for almost one week of salary per employee. This very real cost increases for companies neglecting network maintenance and management. It is startling to find that some, especially small to mid-sized businesses, do not account for their network at all which is certainly a formula for lost profitability. This study further reported that the cost of network management was underestimated by one-half. In fact, labor costs account for 43% in some networks and additional expenses account for equipment replacement and network maintenance, ongoing training, network downtime, disaster recovery, and network security. By accounting for your network management with Kent Network Solutions, you’ll have a reliable network for your business and ultimately, the accountability necessary for continued success.
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The Outsourcing Question
Here’s how to decide between keeping everything in-house and asking for a helping hand.
By Jamie Lendino
Darryl Milczarek is the accounting manager for Equipment Maintenance Services, and industrial repair company with branches in the U.K., Australia, and North America. The company decided to switch to External IT (www.externalit.com) for their IT infrastructure. Milczarek suggested that no one should buy a single file server until they’ve investigated the cost of owning that file server versus outsourcing it. “We now have zero file servers instead of the 13 we had only 15 months ago; It’s incredible.” Milczarek said.
According to Milczarek, because servers age, the cost of ownership is too high when you factor in the pain of having to work through Active Directory, maintain users, and handle patches. For his business, outsourcing is simply the best way to go.
Many companies face big decisions when expanding their IT departments, or creating one in the first place. Should you hire employees in-house? Or should you contract part, or all, of your IT needs to an outside company?
The New IT Landscape
In the 1990’s, it was commonplace for workplace machines to run applications locally on the desktop. An average computer workstation in the financial industry, for example, would have applications tapping into various services for stock quotes and market research. Many larger companies had an IT team on staff to maintain these applications and prepare desktop PCs according to custom company builds.
Today, customized applications run through the company’s local network, and individual workers access each program through their Web browser. Consequently, the focus has been directed away from the machines themselves. Outsourced IT departments can walk...
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