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IT services in Houston are necessary to many businesses because they reduce tech overhead while expanding operational ability. This makes many businesses more competitively viable. However, there’s this issue with technology— it does not remain static. The most well-maintained server will usually have a lifespan between three and five years, and it will be continually approaching anachronism throughout its term of service. This is because technological capability in terms of computation doubles on itself about every eighteen months, and has done so since, at least, 1965 when Gordon Moore noticed the phenomenon.
A Common Scenario
What often happens is a business will institute a tech solution and leave it to operate on its own. This solution becomes unable to handle the load of a marketplace that has taken another step up the staircase of technological progression. Computers will run more slowly, glitches will develop, and staff will be less productive. As a matter of fact, you can expect 1 in 5 people in such conditions to develop technological workarounds which allow them to sidestep network parameters.
You’re more likely to see the better employees do this, as they’re seeking to remain productive. However, the collateral fallout is that such sidestepping facilitates increased operational vulnerability. For example, if you had a password management protocol via automation which locks employees out for a minimum of one hour before they can get back online, you’re likely to have employees store passwords somewhere they can be found.
This is a hypothetical, but you get the idea: sometimes, workers have much compelling them into a workaround. But on the other hand, the 4 in 5 people who don’t use such workarounds simply allow productivity to degrade as inadequate systems slow operational egress. It’s a lose-lose situation not to update your protocols to their maximum efficiency.
Availability and Diversity
An IT services provider in Houston can help your business identify where it needs to augment operations. Sometimes you need to upgrade, and sometimes what you think is the issue really isn’t. Additionally, the right service providers will come with a bevy of motivated professional technicians who have a diversity of experience and a ubiquity of availability. Neither availability nor diversity of experience can be obtained at the same quality through the majority of internal tech solutions.
Streamlined, Efficient Operations
IT services in Houston from ICS can reduce inefficient operations, enabling employees to get more done with less restraint in terms of operational impediments. Contact us to get an idea where your business may be coming up short, and the kind of measures you can take to overcome such situations.
Further reading
ICS is a Texas-based 40-year-old technology company specializing in Managed IT, VoIP, Video Conferencing and Video Surveillance solutions for US and International businesses. ICS has over 4000 regional installations and specializes in multi-site businesses between 25 and 2500 employees. ICS’s customers enjoy the experience of ICS’s Total Care program which provides clients flat fee services with obsolescence and growth protection. Whether a customer elects to deploy their IT, Video Conferencing or VoIP in the cloud or on the customer’s premise, ICS can provide a full turn-key solution for our clients under one flat monthly fee.