An Ounce of Prevention...

Is your critical data backed up? Do you have antivirus installed? Is your email secure? Are your systems running their latest patches? Have you tested all these systems?

With your computer network, preventative measures can have a big impact on not only your peace of mind, but also on your bottom line. The fact that something fails is not necessarily attributable to an incorrect setup, or a bad piece of equipment. At the end of the day computer systems are complex, and require maintenance. A backup application may incorporate thousands or millions of lines of code, and interact with various operating system components that are constantly being updated. As such, a backup that is not tested is not to be trusted. Routine, periodic restoration tests have the benefit of giving you real-world timelines for your office to work with in the event that you need to restore. While it’s easy to deal with theoreticals based on backup size, bandwidth, and more, there’s nothing quite like doing an actual test restore to put those numbers to the test so you can determine exactly how long your systems will take to recover in real life. It also verifies that you’re able to decrypt encrypted backups, because let’s face it… typos do happen. You don’t want to discover a typo on either your documented records or your configured backups AFTER you need to recover data.

Silver Pine I.T. is committed to providing cost effective routine maintenance as an option to our customers. We seek to actively train our customers on proper procedures, and their associated costs so that they can make their own informed decisions regarding maintaining their network. If your current I.T. provider isn’t proactively maintaining your network, or worse is simply charging you obscene amounts of money for some nondescript maintenance, contact us to review your current systems to ensure that not only are you getting what you’re paying for, but that you’re reducing costs with targeted, cost effective maintenance of your systems.