Server management and the processes involved in administering cloud infrastructure are becoming a more demanding task every year. The rapid pace of technological change forces organizations to look for flexible, scalable solutions tailored to their specific business and organizational culture.
This is one of the key factors behind maintaining a lasting competitive advantage built on significant cost optimization and achieving the highest possible level of infrastructure reliability and availability. Is it still worth it today to employ in-house administrators and IT specialists?
In-house solutions may not be enough for effective server management
Technology is changing at an exponential pace. Almost every month, new software, hardware solutions, or procedures appear on the market that improve server management and the IT infrastructure used by companies, organizations, and institutions. It’s difficult to keep up in such a fast-changing environment, stay operational, keep current, and avoid getting hacked along the way. Holistically monitoring and managing such a complex environment is an equally daunting task.
The sheer amount of knowledge and skill needed for effective server management and cloud solutions at SMEs often proves too much for in-house specialists. IT departments increasingly resemble hospital emergency rooms, with in-house IT staff essentially putting on scrubs and playing the role of paramedics, doing everything they can to patch gaps and keep processes reliable on an ongoing basis.
These problems mainly stem from the limited capacity of in-house IT departments. Often an IT department consists of just one (or occasionally a few) IT staff members with varying levels of knowledge and skill. Their job is to take care of things like website development, server security, data backups, and software configuration and maintenance.
Unfortunately, companies often can’t afford to hire specialists, since doing so involves significant costs. Beyond that, one or two specialists usually aren’t enough to maintain a high level of comprehensive IT infrastructure support.
For this reason, businesses are increasingly choosing a more flexible, cheaper, and easier-to-implement solution: external server management through IT outsourcing.
Why is it worth outsourcing server management?
There are many reasons and measurable benefits behind entrusting administration and server management, along with cloud infrastructure, to an external team of experts.
Savings of up to 85% a month
Of course, the most significant benefit is substantial savings, along with transparency and ease of managing the costs incurred. Instead of permanently employing staff with a diverse range of skills and knowledge, it’s a much smarter solution to use an outsourcing service. Through it, an organization gains access to a large team of experts based on its current needs.
For one of our clients, we managed to optimize infrastructure and server management costs by as much as 85% on a monthly basis!
Staff always on duty
Illness, vacation, accidents, or other unexpected events? None of that affects an external team of experts. A team of specialists is always watching over the security, performance, and operational continuity of your IT infrastructure, so our clients never need to worry about staffing issues. Outsourcing means efficiency, security, and a guarantee that assigned tasks will get done.
Access to a wide range of technologies
By purchasing an outsourcing service, our client gains access to many experts. This means they aren’t limited to the capabilities of a single in-house employee. Outsourcing administrative work and server management to our company means gaining access to an unlimited technology stack. This gives the client much greater operational flexibility, a lasting competitive advantage, and the ability to effectively optimize processes and costs.
Comprehensive service
An experienced team of specialists knows how to precisely and efficiently structure every process and automation within the services provided. Continuous oversight of many servers and infrastructures means our experts are constantly refining their skills and deepening their expertise.
Full availability
We offer unlimited access to technology consulting. Our team is available as often as the client needs. Our specialists are frequently available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, 365 days a year. This lets us respond to a failure immediately, regardless of the day or time the problem occurs. We guarantee an SLA response time.
In summary
Employing in-house IT experts simply doesn’t pay off. The cost of maintaining them is very high and disproportionate to the benefits gained. Outsourcing administration and server management, along with cloud infrastructure, to an external team of experts provides access to a wide range of technologies and the extensive knowledge of experienced specialists, while optimizing operating costs at the same time. What’s more, the process of bringing in external IT support is simple and fast, and the scope of cooperation can be flexibly adjusted and scaled to match a company’s current and future needs.