Why is a proactive approach of using managed services going to save my business money?
In the question above we discussed one scenario of a hard drive going bad in a RAID configuration, and later if a second drive goes bad and the server is down. Imagine the cost to your business if you have ten users who can’t do any work, while you got a server down with two failed drives. It is likely to require a major restore from backup (assuming you got that working), purchasing of new hard drives, and fixing everything that didn’t load well from backup. Best guess is about three to four days of down time. Now, if we look at it from a managed services approach, where alerts are sent out after your first drive failed – you are now looking at no down time. The bad drive will be replaced on the fly, and you will not suffer any delay. In this scenario, it is likely that you would save $10,000 or more in lost revenue to the company. We strongly recommend having your network managed and avoiding the costly and time-consuming downtime situations.