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If you’re a business owner, chances are you’ve been expanding your company’s online services to meet the increased demand for digital solutions brought by the pandemic. You’re also most likely thinking about how to maintain further expansion, as adopting more technology brings in additional maintenance costs to keep everything running smoothly.
The task of monitoring and securing your IT infrastructure, for example, becomes even greater in expansion. With each new technology you integrate, you need to acquire the necessary tools and manpower to complement them. A holistic approach should always be observed in monitoring and securing IT, as you can only realize consistent uptime when both technology and manpower work together.
However, by outsourcing IT services to data center partners, your company can be freed from the complexities of IT management. Data center partners possess three essential elements with excellent value for money that can help you address IT maintenance concerns — Network Operations Center (NOC), Security Operations Center (SOC), and Disaster Recovery Seat. Here, we describe how the three maintain your company’s growing online presence through their enhanced IT maintenance features.
Network Operations Center
The NOC provides you a visual representation of the states of your company’s key IT components. Think of it as the “command center” that oversees everything through several computers and screens. With this constant supervision, your company can resolve problems immediately or even prevent them from happening in the first place. The NOC also typically houses activities related to the remediation of components. It can isolate a faulty component from the network to let NOC staff work on them from behind the scenes.
Utilizing the data center’s robustness and redundant power measures, the NOC can monitor your company’s network 24/7. Subscribing to a data center partner’s NOC can also provide great value for money. Our NOC offering at the Hive data center, for example, gives companies the option to subscribe to a shared responsibility model where clients use our IT resources, complete with staff.
Security Operations Center
The SOC has similar monitoring and value for money capabilities of the NOC, but with sole focus on detecting and responding to cyberthreats. It monitors the security of components such as servers and endpoints to look for malicious incoming data and suspicious activity and quickly notifies staff of serious problems. Worry not as the SOC does not have visibility or access to your company’s data, in compliance with privacy laws.
Always remember that every new technology can act as another entry point for cybercriminals. You should support your expansion by looking towards tapping the 24/7 security services offered by data center partners. Our Beeinfotech PH SOC offering, for example, enables our clients to take advantage of our BProtect Security Incident and Event Management (SIEM) platform that can quickly identify and respond to security events within networks.
Disaster Recovery Seat
Having a Disaster Recovery Seat service from a data center partner allows you to operate during and after a disaster. Keep in mind that there is always the possibility for unforeseen events to occur that can halt day-to-day operations. While you can choose to wait until the disruption has passed, you lose business opportunities in every minute that goes by. The longer your service is unavailable, the more losses you incur, not just in revenue but in productivity and customer trust as well.
As a reliable component of any business continuity plan, Disaster Recovery Seat delivers excellent value for money, as you can continue operations as if no disruption happened. Our Disaster Recovery Seat at the Hive data center, for example, allots standard office amenities to companies while also providing the facility’s redundant power. As a telco-neutral data center partner, our Disaster Recovery Seat also provides a telco-neutral connection that allows companies to tap the connection of multiple internet service providers.
When you divide attention between core business functions and IT-related concerns, you may lose focus on main business goals. Fortunately, data center partners are there to make sure that your mind is free from IT issues with their fully secure, redundant, and value for money facilities that ensure consistent uptime, reliability, and accessibility.
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