Benefits to your business of IT managed services

IT infrastructure – its quality and how well it is managed and maintained – can have a big impact on productivity and efficiency. In decades gone by the up front and ongoing costs associated with this would have been solely the responsibility of a business in-house. This could be restrictive in terms of objectives and mean that IT infrastructure was frequently not being optimised. Today, that’s simply not the case. Whatever the size of your business, or its stage of development, IT managed services provide options to support greater growth. There are a number of key benefits for any business when it comes to bringing IT managed services on board.

• Minimising downtime. With the right resources your business would probably be able to build a crack internal IT team able to handle anything that the online world threw at it. However, most businesses don’t have unlimited resources and this can lead to problems such as security breaches, poor maintenance and network issues that ultimately cause downtime. Downtime is one of the biggest problems for any business reliant on its network for anything, from customer service to supporting purchases. This can be minimised with managed IT services as maintenance is ongoing, issues are swiftly fixed by experts and monitoring ensures that small issues don’t have the opportunity to get out of control.
• Streamlining spend. One of the major benefits of IT managed services is the access to specialist expertise that is available at minimal cost. Outsourcing the handling of your IT network means there is no need to recruit for this internally or to pay for associated hardware and software. A managed IT service can handle everything, from database maintenance to dealing with servers and the team you’ll have access to will be more specialist and experienced than most small businesses could afford to hire in-house.
• Prioritising data. No matter what your business does or what size it is, the way it handles data today is critically important. Whether from a business recovery or a compliance perspective data measures have the potential to impact widely across the enterprise. Working with IT managed services ensures that every aspect of this is covered, whether that is setting up systems that are compliant with data protection regulations or ensuring that back ups are in place that will allow the organisation to continue functioning even where access to data via regular networks has been lost.
• The security perspective. Every business is vulnerable to hackers and cybercriminals today. It can be difficult to stay on top of all the latest security risks and to ensure that your internal processes are set up to keep the business up to date. With managed IT services you’ll have the peace of mind of knowing that this is in expert hands. From patches and maintenance to upgrading networks and identifying risks, everything is handled by the experts.

These are just some of the benefits that exist for businesses that look to partner with managed IT services. See how we can help you here... https://www.virtualtech.co.uk/contact-us