At ICE Systems we pride ourselves on standing by our clients when challenges arise - rather than opting for the ‘band-aid solution’, we strive to meet these challenges head-on, with complete, managed solutions that transform potential setbacks into real competitive advantages. To this end, our team of highly qualified system engineers employ a range of procedures, including regular preventative maintenance, event logging, ensuring fast, hassle-free system performance day in, day out.
Alternatively ICE Systems can assist to design and implement monitoring solutions for your organisation to take control of any environment.
What is network monitoring? Network monitoring for a corporate network is a critical IT function that can save money in network performance, employee productivity and infrastructure cost overruns. A network monitoring system monitors nodes in both a local area network (LAN) and wide area network (WAN) for problems. It doesn't matter whether it's wireless or wired, a corporate LAN, VPN or service provider WAN, you can monitor devices on different operating systems with a multitude of functions, ranging from BlackBerrys and iphones, to servers, routers and switches.
A correctly installed Network Monitoring System (NMS) will provide the following functionality • Confirm regulatory and policy compliance • Help determine employee productivity Some Desired Business Outcomes from an implementation •Gain effective command and control •Pinpoint bottlenecks without over-investing time or money. •Identify issues before they impact your users and the business. •Keep track of your ever-changing networked assets without human intervention. •Align infrastructure components with key business processes. Helping Business to understand ROI Building managers never argue the need for fire insurance. Network managers rarely deny the necessity of keeping a close eye on servers, routers, hubs, switches, and connections to make sure that everything is functioning as desired. Business managers, CFOs and CIOs worry about IT costs and often struggle to measure their value and the return on investment. To them, cost control is as important as network reliability. It is critical to understand how monitoring a network adds value and/or reduces costs.
Your network is the foundation for your IT infrastructure. It supports your IT strategy and in turn, your business. That message needs to be clearly articulated and understood, senior executives need to be aware of the risks associated with a network outage and the impact on the business. ROI usuallycentres around saving money, protecting market position or creating new revenue opportunities. ROI is not always about a dollar value, consider if it can be attributed to reduced support incidents, improved customer satisfaction or more accurate investment decisions.
At ICE Systems we start by understanding what problems you are trying to solve, you may find that you are over provisioning the infrastructure to cope with anticipated demand, or using high-end components to protect your decisions. Using hard facts gathered over time to justify and right-size your IT investments means significant savings can be quickly accrued.
• Highlight potential cost savings by finding redundant resources
• Spot overloaded equipment before it can bring down a network
• Identify weak wide-area-network links and other bottlenecks
• Measure latency, or the delayed transfer of data
• Find anomalous internal traffic that might indicate a security threat
Careful network monitoring gives executives all the information they need to justify network upgrades and expansions in order to support new corporate goals.