What are the various services offered by an IT solution provider for small business?

1. What are the various services offered by an IT solution provider for small business?

2. Contents • Introduction • Remote Monitoring • Virtualization • Email Archiving • Spam Protection

3. Introduction • It is always best to hire a professional IT solution provider if you don’t have separate IT department or need an additional staffs to monitor your business. • They can provide both long term and short term solution for your business.

4. Remote Monitoring • Hiring IT solution provider can monitor your business by remotely connecting to your environment every day to check out for power failures, replications, virus protection and complete backup. • In addition with daily check up, they also do report monthly on power outages, exchange database health, virtual host status, server hardware health, server storage capacity and limits, antivirus scan and updates.

5. Virtualization • In order to improve your work environment, you can reduce the server that you are using for your business and develop an environment with less manpower to maintain and low maintenance cost. • This can be done by changing your server into a virtualized platform.

6. Email Archiving • Normally, the IT solution providers create a program that will help with retention of email. • This program is intended to meet the requirement of the information security program standards under the Health insurance portability and Accountability act & the family educational rights and privacy act.

7. Spam protection • Spam is one of the major concerns in many small businesses based on both productivity and security perspectives. • The best solution to protect your mail from spam is to prevent it at the starting stage itself which is about entering your network in the first place. • Most of the IT solution provider will use cloud based solution in which you do not have to install and manage hardware or software.