Server Monitoring and Maintenance
Filtering hundreds of server alerts, researching issues, troubleshooting and fixing problems can sometimes be a mind-numbing exercise. However, server downtime has a high associated cost especially when an organization’s productivity is affected.
Keeping servers and applications running efficiently and gaining client satisfaction is achievable but costly. You and your staff must prepare for any eventuality to occur. Providing 24x7 service means late nights and no breaks over weekends or holidays.
Many IT service providers are finding it increasingly difficult to manage technician utilization correctly, maintain a robust server and application skill-set readily available and protect their profit margins.
Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) software offers a cost-effective alternative but you need to choose carefully. By investing money up-front, it is easy to miss the total cost of ownership. Some RMM providers require large purchases of bulk licenses and may require maintenance on those licenses that can add up to 20% of the original purchase price, yearly. Such investments should not be overlooked, especially as additional charges come into play: server hardware, antivirus and database software, additional monthly bandwidth, and a backup and redundancy solution.
Continuum's hosted solution for servers includes the right blend of remote monitoring and management tools, back office services and third-party bundled software options to provide efficient and cost-effective server management. We offer three distinct server management service plans, each targeted to suit specific service requirements.
Remote Server Care
Remote Server Care is the premium service offering for IT Service providers looking for troubleshooting support beyond Continuum’s knowledge base. Our talented technical teams are at the ready to resolve server issues. Partners have access to our Critical Notification Team as well as the Remote Remediation Team from Proactive Server Care. Partners can also take advantage of the Remote Troubleshooting Team for service requests. You can forward any event identities, application messages, windows error messages and other anomalies to Continuum for best effort troubleshooting.
Proactive Server Care
Proactive Server Care was designed for IT Service providers who would like to off-load the heavy burden of monitoring repetitive, administrative processing to Continuum, while their own technicians focus on completing projects and building client relations. Partners work with the Critical Notification Team just as in the Server Watch service offering below. In addition, partner alerts generated by Continuum’s RMM software can be sent to our Remote Remediation Team, which then remotely connect to the troubled server to apply a Continuum best practices solution.
Server Watch
Server Watch was designed for IT Service providers who prefer a hands-on approach to resolving server problems, yet want to use our Back Office Services monitoring to reduce the time required for filtering through alerts and researching resolutions. Our partners coordinate with our Critical Notification Team through the Escalation Templates we employ for configuring phone call notifications.
What’s more, we make it easy for busy IT professionals to provide more responsive service to their customers while maximizing productivity outside the office. For example, a free iOS app for Continuum partners provides comprehensive remote access to the same robust RMM features available from a desktop or laptop and the ability to remotely support customer devices. And with our SMS escalation alert feature, partners can choose to receive alert notifications via text instead of a phone call.