A Case Study
On-Call Services vs. 24/7 Monitoring
Some new clients want to keep costs low and more predictable. In this case, they may sign up for ‘on-call’ services that offer lower costs but don’t protect the network habitat 24/7. Unlike a front lawn that requires predictable care, networks are more like ‘cars’ that are unpredictable and require constant insurance in case of emergency.
One of our financial clients recently didn't see the need for 24/7 monitoring and support.
Unfortunately, they were hit with a server outage over a weekend that crippled them by the time they arrived to work on Monday morning. They called ICE and asked us to be onsite ASAP so they could get their employees back to work and online, and restore uptime.
Since fixing this problem fell outside of our monthly 24/7-support agreement, all the work we did to recover the server and get them up and running was billed hourly. Not only did the client have a larger bill to contend with, but they also suffered a loss of productivity that could have been avoided with 24/7 monitoring.
Needless to say, if we had been managing and monitoring them from the start, ICE Consulting would have spotted the issue immediately, opened and closed a ticket a lot quicker and with minimal impact to their business operations.
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