The most valuable asset in your office is probably the most neglected

Look around your office.  What do you see?  Computers, printers, copy machines?  What about the parking lot?  Any company cars or service vehicles?  Now let’s take a look inside your network closet.  Do you see a server, some network equipment, and maybe some spare parts?

Of all these things, which one do you think is most critical to your business?  Sure, all of these assets are important to your day-to-day operations, but if the copy machine breaks down or your work truck gets totaled, you can always get another one.  These things are basically commodity items that can be replaced at a moment’s notice.

Your server, on the other hand, is irreplaceable.  This is where your company’s information is stored.  This is where your client files are warehoused.  If you lose the data on your server, there is no simple way to get it back.  At best, a memory stick or motherboard could fail, causing only a few hours of downtime if replacement parts are readily available.  But a failed hard disk could mean days of lost productivity as data is recovered or restored from backup, assuming there’s a backup solution in the first place.

At worst, you could lose everything.

As a professional, it’s shocking to see how frequently the company server is relegated to a dirty broom closet and neglected until something breaks.  Unfortunately, it’s also quite common, because as the saying goes, “out of sight, out of mind”.

But understanding the critical nature of the common company server is only the first step. The next step is actually doing something to protect your server and all the valuable data that it holds.

So do something! Contact Pixelwerx today to learn more about server management, maintenance, and backups to protect the mission-critical data that your business depends on.