Managed IT services offer a range of different responsibilities such as specific on demand response to 24/7 coverage of a business’s IT infrastructure. Managed IT services allow businesses to delegate their workloads to people outside of their company. This will allow for the IT infrastructure to work more efficiently, reduce the amount of downtime, fill gaps left by existing IT staff and much more.
What Can Managed IT Services Do For Your Business?
Most managed IT service providers (MISPs) offer basic packages that help you with day-to-day IT issues, but they may also offer higher tier packages that include more comprehensive services such as disaster recovery.
If you are a small business that wants to scale but doesn’t have the resources to do so, then managed services can be an excellent choice. When you outsource your IT services, you can cover a range of areas. Some of these include application, network, payroll, servers, backup/recovery solutions and much more.
When it comes to new hardware, you don’t have to worry about having to do the research of finding out what will be most effective. This is because your MISP will be able to manage your inventory and give recommendations where necessary.
One of the main IT services that small businesses outsource is their cloud services. This is because most of them lack the knowledge and expertise, which is where your MISP will come into play.
Advantages Of Managed IT Services
Professional Help – As opposed to keeping your IT services in-house with people who have limited knowledge, MISPs have expertly trained staff who know what they are doing. Having experienced technical support is essential as you never know when you may face a problem where you have no idea what to do.
Clear Costs – Most MISPs will be able to calculate how much you will need to pay each month based off of whatever you use. This consistent monthly fee insight is great as you will never feel worried as to whether or not your new bill will come with some drastically increasing in price.
Cost Efficient – By outsourcing all of your IT services, you save the money you would have otherwise had to have spent on hiring new employees and training existing staff. This money can then be reimbursed in other important areas of your business.
Save Time – Now that you have an external team working on the back end of all of your IT problems, your in-house team will now have more time to focus on their own tasks and help work solely towards the growth and development of your business.
How Ridgeworks Managed IT Services Can Help You
We offer a range of IT and cloud-based services. Some of these include hosted exchange; email solutions for calendaring, task management, address lists, accessing shared documents etc. Advanced threat protection; protecting users, tamper-proofing archives, keeping data safe from corruption and deletion. Online backups, cloud-based data solutions and much more.
If you would like to find out more about our managed IT services, then get in contact with us today.
