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Always-On Basics – What is it?

Computer systems in today’s business world are critical business components.
Are your business computer systems important in your business efforts? For most businesses they are.

Does your company treat your computer systems as if they were an integral part of your successful business operations? Surprisingly, a lot of companies do not.

In the last several years businesses have become more dependent on their computer systems. In one sense this is good as the price of purchasing computer hardware has dropped significantly. However, when it comes to downtime, businesses are less able to afford being without the systems they have become dependent on – This can make downtime catastrophic when a company cannot use its computer systems or email for a significant length of time. A failed main server without a proper disaster recovery plan can take weeks to recover data and restore function – can your company withstand that kind of downtime and survive?

Since downtime – or, more accurately, the prevention of downtime – has become more critical for successfully running a business that is dependent on computer systems, All Mountain Technologies has developed our Always-On line of support offerings. Always-On was developed with the idea of preventing problems before they affect business or with the focus of ‘business continuity’ in mind.

Our goal with our Always-On managed services is to proactively maintain systems while anticipating and remediating issues BEFORE our clients are even aware of them — BEFORE those potential issues can affect business operations.

Often computer systems grow as a business does and the extent of the business’ dependency is unclear. The evolving and increasing complexity of these computer systems usually goes hand-in-hand with the degree of reliance on them. It is often a difficult proposition for a business to justify what seems like an added expense that they didn’t have before – just like health care. As these computer systems become increasingly complex we have found this to be true: It is not a matter of if your company is going to lose data or experience downtime – it is a matter of when.
Always-On is a proactive, business class computer support offering that is superior to ‘break-fix’ support for companies at an affordable flat monthly rate. With Always-On we prevent the ‘break’ and try to implement the ‘fix’ before it affects you.

Our Always-On service offering line lets us help you do contingency planning and redundancy planning. It is our experience that the only businesses that are properly prepared to survive data loss are the ones that acknowledge the value of properly running computer systems.

Please explore further on our site and feel free to call us if you have any questions or if you believe proactive maintenance with Always-On makes sense for your company.