IT support, including network monitoring, is a vital function for any small or medium-sized business, supporting both your internal team and client needs. It determines not only internal and client productivity, but even more importantly, client satisfaction and trust. If your clients aren’t confident in something as fundamental as your network, how can they be confident in you?
A strong network must operate at optimal speed and be reliable and secure. Network monitoring can ensure all of this. In fact, the right partner can perform your network monitoring both to detect potential issues before they become critical problems and to ensure you are paying the optimal price to keep your network operational.
At ClearFuze, we’ve spent over 20 years helping clients across all industries with critical IT services like network monitoring. We are proud to have the longstanding trust of so many growing companies and work tirelessly to ensure our reputation as an unparalleled service provider is well-deserved.
Here’s a deeper dive into what network monitoring can do for you.
What is network monitoring?
Network monitoring describes the process of using both digital tools and human expertise to continuously assess and refine a computer network for performance, security, and reliability. In addition to ensuring all your network’s components are functioning properly, a good network monitoring partner will monitor incoming data such as user traffic and cybersecurity threats.
To get the most out of your IT solution, your business should run on a network that is the appropriate bandwidth and speed for your traffic volume. This is especially important if your business experiences periods of unusually high volume – such as an e-commerce business during a sale, or an accounting firm during tax season. Network monitoring ensures that your IT infrastructure is robust so you can maintain business continuity, no matter what unexpected circumstances life throws your way.
Why is network monitoring essential for businesses?
Whether you are B2B or B2C, one of the most important attributes you can offer your end users is reliability. Network monitoring allows you to ensure that you remain both operational and optimized by:
- Reducing or preventing downtime: By detecting problems early, networking monitoring partners can make fixes and improvements before outages occur.
- Improving performance: By spotting bottlenecks and slowdowns like overloaded servers or insufficient bandwidth, businesses can optimize network performance.
- Enhancing security: Network monitoring can identify unusual traffic or activities, signal potential cybersecurity threats, and create additional protective mechanisms accordingly.
When most people think of IT, they think of protecting against cybersecurity attacks. One of the best ways to do this is to perform network monitoring. At ClearFuze, our networking monitoring services are integrated with cybersecurity strategies to detect and prevent threats like malware and DDoS attacks.
What makes Clearfuze’s network monitoring solutions different?
At ClearFuze, we know that the best IT service is proactive. Our meticulous, preemptive approach to network monitoring makes it easy for you to rest assured that we’ve got you covered with:
Integrated automated alerts: The best monitoring systems have backup. That’s why we integrate automated alerts into all our network monitoring processes. The second something is wrong, we let you know.
24/7 monitoring: Everyone knows that hackers (and general network issues) don’t keep regular business hours. We’ve got you covered around the clock.
Custom dashboards: As your network monitoring provider, we have eyes on your systems at all times. But you deserve to know what’s happening too. Access the performance and security analytics you want – and none that you don’t – anytime.
How network monitoring supports business continuity
If you own or operate a business, you know that every day brings unexpected events. Unfortunately, not even the best IT company can prevent an external incident like a water leak in your office building though if only we could). However, many of the technology-related disruptions a business faces are entirely, or almost entirely preventable by proactively monitoring its network.
Our network monitoring prevents or severely minimizes the lost revenue and decreased productivity that a network outage can cause. And if you need disaster recovery services after that water leak, robust network monitoring speeds up the disaster recovery process.
Why network monitoring is key for maintaining cloud infrastructure
Did you know over 60% of the world’s corporate data is stored in the cloud? It’s highly likely that yours is too – especially if you have remote workers, if your clients access your network while receiving your services through actions like uploading sensitive data, or if you operate what’s called a “multi-cloud environment,” which is when an organization uses cloud services from multiple providers to run their applications.
Multi-cloud environments offer a lot of benefits to growing companies. They are often more cost-effective, provide greater scalability, and reduce the risk of outages. But it takes a deft IT partner to manage these additional layers of technology.
At ClearFuze, our expert monitoring and management of multi-cloud environments allows you to reap all the benefits of a multi-cloud environment while ensuring visibility and security across various platforms.
Proactive network monitoring drives business success
Any way you look at it, robust network monitoring is an important part of your overall business plan.
If you’re in a heavily regulated industry like finance or medicine, you know how important maintaining compliance is–especially with regard to data protection. But even if you’re not, ensuring that your business stays efficient and secure is a great way to optimize your team’s performance and to maintain trust with clients.
If you’d like to hear more about ClearFuze’s network monitoring services and how they can benefit your business, reach out to chat with us. We look forward to helping you grow.
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