How Managed IT Services Can Reduce The Cost Of Running Your IT

Have you ever wondered why your office administrator is spending more and more time on the telephone to your IT company when they should be dealing with your customer correspondence? Whatever the reason, time spent troubleshooting problems on your IT systems costs you real money, either because your staff are diverted from the jobs that they are meant to be doing, or because you need to pay your IT engineer another couple of hundred pounds to come in and sort the problem out for you.

If you want to cut the real cost of supporting your IT, you need to makes some changes. You need to do a little housekeeping to delete some of the digital clutter that PC’s accumulate as a result of carrying out your day-to-day work. You also need to make sure that your PC’s are kept updated with all of the latest patches to protect you from viruses and trojans that you can download from the internet without even realising it.

Ask yourself a few questions

• When did you last defragment or run disk cleanup on your PC hard drives?
• Would you know if one of your PC’s was running out of Hard disk space?
• How often do you check that Windows Updates are installing properly on all of your PC’s?

These are all straightforward tasks that can help you to spot potential problems before they bite you. Think of it as being the equivalent of a car service. I’ll bet that you take your car in for a service every year because it makes your car run better, and because if you don’t your engine will eventually seize up and cost you ten times more than getting it serviced regularly. Computers are no different, except that computers really need to be checked on a weekly basis.

If that sounds a daunting task, why not outsource your IT Support to a company who can manage your IT for you. Just like your car dealer, they can use automation software to perform the equivalent of a service on your PC’s via the internet. This is by far the least expensive way of performing the regular housekeeping tasks that will keep your PC’s running reliably and virus free, and as a consequence you won't need to call out an engineer to your offices so often. The net result is that your IT keeps running, your employees can get on with the job that you pay them for, and your IT costs are kept as low as possible. 

Let me know if you need an IT tip to make your PC's and Servers work better for you. Where possible, one of my engineers will answer your question on the blog. If we can't we will at least email you back and try to point you in the right direction if we can.