• Efficient
• Precise
• Responsive
• Flexible

By allowing a qualified managed services firm to monitor your network, you can eliminate up to 80 percent of emergency service calls for the same price or less than what you are currently paying. Additionally, you will eliminate nearly all of the downtime and lack of productivity associated with network failure.

DAC

But the network is fine now…..

The power of networking hardware has increased exponentially over the last decade, and the cost of hardware has decreased. However, operating and maintaining the network requires resources, knowledge and expertise. Case in point—an operating system requires anywhere from 5-20 critical patches per month. At Data Applications, we constantly monitor patchwork upgrades and check for vulnerability. Further, if a problem arises that you cannot solve, technicians can charge up to $200 per hour to correct it. If your network is compromised, costs could go well beyond a dollar amount.

Further, your network might serve your needs now, but what about 20, 30 or 40 employees from now? With managed services, we can effectively predict the technology requirements that you will need if you open a new office or enter a new market, preventing downtime and ensuring the highest level of productivity for your employees. Even though technological improvements throughout the years have made networking tools available to the masses, no network is perfect. Because network monitoring is our core competency, we can always find areas to make your network run more efficiently and smoothly.

IT Personnel

A common misconception is that a managed services firm encroaches on the responsibilities and duties of an IT staff. On the contrary, a managed services firm will provide you with the tools you need to make your job easier and to be more proactive in terms of enhancements, the growth of network and the addition of new devices.

Every client receives a monthly executive summary. This report is a collection of data gathered from the most important hardware within your infrastructure. The critical reports included illustrate the overall performance and availability of your applications. You will know the overall usage of the server environment and the metrics associated with servers-- CPU utilization, swap utilization and disk space utilization. The report also provides an understanding of the utilization of the bandwidth available for network traffic. With the executive summary, you and your management team will be able to plan for your technology requirements for now and the future.

Cost

Though these services are now affordable to small and mid-sized companies, many still see these services as a luxury. For example, an engineer or a lawyer could spend 20 hours per month managing a network, yet bill at $200 per hour.  In some cases, DAC can manage your network a fraction of that. Partnering with DAC will allow you to focus on your core business and free up resources to capitalize on new fields of business.