I actually realize on a daily basis the great things about protective maintenance and what happens to those who make the costly mistake of thinking they are saving bucks by choosing not to acquire a maintenance agreement on their technology investment.

Even though it may seem to be less expensive each month to only call your technology company once you have a problem, over the permanent this is most certainly not the case. Doing this can increase your IT support costs exponentially because small problems can quickly develop and cause catastrophic results across your network ensuing in large IT support and repair costs.

These types of unexpected costs will also likely come at the worst time possible because that's only the way it goes. Having smaller regular maintenance payments you expect and budget for is a much better plan for all.

Additionally you need to estimate the price tag on downtime for Organization. What does 1 hour, a day, or even a week cost your company in conditions of lost earnings and damaged interactions with your clients?

Why don't we take for example your network server? If you do not have regular maintenance performed on your server such as MS security update installation, Malware definition updates, reviewing mistake and event logs and incredibly important... checking to be sure your backups are working and can be restored from, then you can get into trouble very fast.

I'm sure that almost all of you reading this have at some time in your life lost folders you could not recover. Imagine for a moment you lose your business documents for your complete company. You may think to yourself "No problem, I've acquired a backup" only to determine that because nobody has actually been testing your backup on a regular basis, they don't work and haven't copied in over a year.

In addition to that because nobody has recently been doing any maintenance or monitoring of your storage space, nobody has noticed that one of the turns on your server has failed so there is no longer any redundancy and another drive inability (which might happen at any moment) means ALMOST EVERYTHING is gone.

I have just recently seen companies who shall continue to be nameless get infected with Crypt locker. They felt self-confident that their backups would save them so travelled ahead and deleted all the encrypted files. Once attempting to restore the info, they quickly and frightfully realized that their copies have not been functioning since 2012. Imagine the cost to this company!

I'm certain I actually don't need to end this story that you can understand how detrimental this circumstance could be. Important thing is a monthly preventative maintenance plan with a trusted THIS company could have preserved their entire business by catching these issues before they ever caused any downtime or financial damage.

If you are an entrepreneur who thinks that if you're lowering costs by saying no to regular maintenance, take it from someone who works with businesses every day. You need to make mindset and realize the potentially catastrophic results choosing to run your business without preventative maintenance for your technology can have.