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Could your “to do” list be any longer? Surely it could, but who wants to pile more on top of the already unmanageable list of tasks, meetings and strategic efforts you’re responsible for? (Don’t answer that question.) You’re handling all of those things and more - coordinating vendors, troubleshooting problems and perhaps managing a staff. It’s enough to make you want to throw up your hands and ask, “Why me?”
The answer would probably be, “Because you can handle it!” And you can, but there are a few ways to make that unmanageable list a little easier to manage and help you breathe a little easier. One of those ways is to hire more staff to help spread the tasks at hand, but that may be difficult in these economic times. Another option would be using managed services from your telecommunications provider to lessen your workload.
There are many benefits to managed services, including cost savings, streamlined management and having one point of contact for all aspects of your network services. Those few things alone will allow you to focus on core and strategic IT initiatives instead of handling day - to - day issues like network outages and email problems. Everyone is stretched thin these days but using managed services frees you to work on more important things that help the company serve its customers and make money.
Many companies have managed service offerings, ranging from managed firewalls, routers, email and data backup. And when you choose managed services, issues that may arise from time to time in the maintenance, upgrades and administration of those services are up to the managed provider. That enables you and your team to focus on your core initiatives.
It’s important to find a trusted partner to manage your services - after all, you’re turning over one of the most important aspects of your business. Whether you choose a large or small company to work with, be sure you’re comfortable with their services, SLAs, responsiveness and willingness to work with you to customize a solution.
Take TelePacific, for example. Its RemoteStor is a complete data backup and recovery service that automatically and securely backs up your critical information over your existing Internet connection to secure infrastructure located in Las Vegas - guaranteed. Or TelePacific’s 1Net IP VPN, which is robust enough to support your VoIP and data networking needs while being cost effective and not breaking your budget. And TelePacific offers managed routers with Internet access. Our team seamlessly manages the router configuration and maintenance so you won’t even know if something should go wrong.
And as a side note, find out how and where technical and field support is managed. For instance, it may provide you more comfort to know that technical and field support are managed by your selected provider’s employees rather then outsourced to a third party, who may or may not be well trained in the technology.
So before you start yelling at the sky like a crazy person, take a deep breath. That’s good. Now go to telepacific.com to get more information about managed services. And then go get a massage to really relax! It’s all under control.
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