subject: Managed It Services: Various Categories Services Ensure The Technological Development [print this page] Managed IT Services: Various Categories Services Ensure The Technological DevelopmentManaged IT services are the innovative approach of providing business IT support where an IT service provider proactively monitor and remediates issues with the client network, servers, desktops and all networked IT infrastructure. Traditional IT support also referred to as break-fix which was a reactive approach to solving IT problems that a business faced.When something stopped working, support would be called upon to investigate the cause and fix it. This led to a huge lag time between the problem occurrence and its resolution. Actually the managed IT services approach continuously monitors a client network for problems using advanced monitoring tools. The IT support team is immediately and automatically noticed when a problem occurs and can act fast to resolve it, most times even before end, users are impacted. Managed IT services provider provide some services like- network asset inventory, desktop and server preventative, best practices for windows server monitoring, patch management, monitoring templates for widely used industry applications, best practices for exchange server monitoring, antivirus management, backup and disaster recovery and proactive server and network. As well as sometimes, some managed IT providers offer the best practices for SBS server monitoring, desktop and server troubleshooting, project work like- upgrades, migrations and new installs etc.Backup and disaster recovery service means the backup tool selection, backup planning, backup execution and monitoring, backup job reporting, data recovery, online backups, tape backups, network storage backups, virtual server backup, active directory backups and exchange server backups etc. The virtualization is the creation of a virtual version of an entity like as an operating system, a server, an application, a storage device or network resources. A simple and practical example of basic virtualization is the logical partitions on a physical hard disk such as C drive and D drive. Virtualization is being widely adopted by enterprise to reduce server hardware footprint and increase utilization rates. Mainly for the purpose of reduces times to deploy and recover systems, the virtual server backup is needed. Exchange server backup is needed for the reason of Microsofts unified communications solution, assisting the planning, Microsoft exchange deployment, exchange server migration and exchange server monitoring purposes.Microsoft patch management is also needed for the purpose of solving the problem of patch deployment; patch testing on UAT environment, group creation and management for patch approvals and designing an effective patch strategy etc. Security patches are software modules developed to address security vulnerabilities and problem with enterprise software including server operating system and application running on top.
