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Today’s typical IT network resembles a many-headed hydra out of ancient mythology. Think about all the laptops, workstations, mobile phones, tablets, and other input devices your employees use to access your servers on a daily basis. As the number of these endpoints continues to grow, so do the potential risks your IT system -- and by extension, your business -- will face. That’s why you may need to consider adding unified endpoint management (UEM) to your system’s capabilities.

As another Thanksgiving holiday approaches, Americans like to put aside everyday hassles in favor of food, family, friends, and general thankfulness for all the good things in their lives. For business owners, that thankfulness may extend, not just for the profits that have rolled in that year, but also to the overall productivity, security, and stability of their various enterprises. You could find yourself feeling thankful that the Austin IT managed services team at Gravity Systems has helped you enjoy this same bounty. Here are four outsourced IT services worth giving thanks for this season.

We’ve had some impressive hail storms this year in Central Texas -- and the “fun” may not be over yet. While the Texas hail season traditionally extends from March through May, it can prove as unpredictable as other kinds of weather in the Lone Star State. (Just a couple of years ago, Houston saw one-inch hail in August!) Hail and other stormy weather can do serious damage to your facility, and therefore your IT system. So take the recent activity as your cue to protect your technology against the following threats:

Halloween is fast approaching once again -- and if you’re like most business owners, the last thing you need is a genuine scare that affects your IT system. It’s time for your friendly Austin IT support team at Gravity Systems to point out some of the more frightening threats that might keep you up at night, and how we can help you protect your company against them this October (and every October).

PC problems are unavoidable. Whether you own a new laptop or have a decade-old PC at your workplace, you are most likely going to face some or other problem almost every day. In this blog post, we are going to highlight some such issues and will guide you on how you can resolve them. 

With technology playing a central role in almost every business, deciding to outsource such an important aspect can be a big challenge.

Gravity systems provides your enterprise with advanced Managed IT services. We offer technological support. We have powerful anti-spam solutions as well as solutions for data back up. Our company keeps in view all of your needs and that’s how we shape our plans and solutions so that you may get the maximum benefit.

The backbone of every modern business is network services. To get extra capability and pressure along with the capacity to control requires some standard of network provision. There should be some provider’s breed to give network services. So Gravity Systems’s is that ideal network service provider who manages network services and who embrace everything which includes point-to-point connections to the designing of full network design.  Their services like MPLS network services are such services that provides fundamental requirements of businesses which assures to their clients that their networks are not only just a piece of wires but they have much more worth than that. 

Managed services are useful in managing enterprises and employ multi-vendor environments to cut expresses, effective strategy implication, remain agile, and reduce risk. Modern CIO’s are going through dilemma when it comes to catching up with the fast changing technology. With new technology, business priorities keep changing.

Managed service is a practice of outsourcing everyday management responsibilities and liabilities as a strategy to improve operations and cut short the expenses in a business. This can include outsourcing Human resource activities, maintenance activities, production support and many more.

 

The individual or an organization which owns or has a direct oversight of the system or organization being managed is often referred as customer or client. The individual or organization which accepts and provides the managed services is known as the Managed service provider (MSP). The business strategy behind management service is common among the enterprise level organizations. This strategy is adapted to fit the small as well as medium sized organizations as they provide consistent budgeting and higher level of service to small and medium sized business enterprises. A MSP is often an IT service provider which manages and takes responsibility to provide a pre defined set of services towards the clients.

Many organizations and enterprises operate with a hybrid model which offers reselling or integrating services in addition to managed services. It is reported that 73% of the companies which offered managed services gained profit.

Management service enables business to grow successfully and navigate in a proper manner.

Although the organization’s operation, security anxiety, Information technology varies according to region, size of the company, type of the industry, what they are often afraid is of profit and loss,  customer base and reputation.

 In this age of strong communication technology and evolution of so many social networks, no treats will go unanalyzed or unpublished and it is very difficult for and organization in escaping the blame on it even if the effect is as a by-product of other incident.

According to a report of Business Continuity Institute, the top ten common threats to business are:

  • Unplanned IT outages
  • Data breaches
  • Adverse weather effects
  • Cyber attacks
  • Health or safety incident
  • Utility supply interruptions
  • Act of terrorism
  • Fires
  • New laws or regulations
  • Security compromises.

 

How manages services satisfy business desires.

 

Managed services in business offers potential to organizations to mitigate problems in several areas of concern as provider’s solution is customized to the organization’s need. Contingency planning is resource intensive, time consuming as well as costly. Though it is quite impossible to prevent adverse weather, it is possible to take precaution from these threats in doing real damage.

Managed services are scalable and hence the involvement of provider correspond organization’s potential hazards and anxieties specifically. Specific service relates to the fact that the service type differs according to the necessity of that particular organization. One organization may require online backup service in order to prevent data loss via an offsite server, where as another may want all its employees to stay connected during a bad weather.

When an organization goes for managed services, the operations are handled by interface with full responsibility. Like large organizations, small organizations also require technology to operate and compete effectively and require resources. In small organizations, there is a scarcity of resources which may have a negative effect to business. Under such circumstances, managed services come out handy. Specialized software is used by MSPs to control and deploy managed services to customers and is known as remote monitoring and management software. The provider is only accountable to the performance and functionality of the managed services and has no claim over management control of the organization.

If you would need Managed IT Support Austin then please contact us back at Gravity Systems.