You can rely on Orange Data to take care of all preventative maintenance checks on your business critical systems.

What is preventative maintenance?

Preventative maintenance is planned maintenance of computing systems designed to improve the life span of equipment and avoid unplanned downtime.

Orange Data conducts extensive checks and maintenance tasks to ensure your IT systems continue to operate at their best. Each preventative maintenance check is fully documented in an easy to understand format and emailed to you for your records. Any problems identified are documented along with our recommendations on how best to resolve them.

What are the benefits of preventative maintenance?

Preventative maintenance provides the following benefits to businesses:

• Improved system performance and reliability
• Decreased system downtime
• Early detection of potential failures
• Avoidance of unexpected failures that can negatively impact your business
• Reduced service and repairs costs
• A proactive instead of reactive approach to managing your IT environment
• Increased life expectancy of equipment

How much does preventative maintenance cost?

The cost of employing a preventative maintenance plan can vary depending on your needs and the equipment you would like to regularly maintain. Typical preventative maintenance covers your company server(s) and other business critical computers. Preventative maintenance is typically performed monthly and can take as little as 1-2 hours per server or computer.

What preventative maintenance tasks are performed?

There are many checks involved with a preventative maintenance check. These can include:

• Reviewing backup logs and performing test restores
• Checking antivirus software is up-to-date and functioning correctly
• Checking for the latest services packs, hot fixes and patches (these are scheduled and applied at a suitable time to the organisation as this generally requires a window for potential downtime)
• Managing hard disk space and fragmentation
• Checking event logs for unexpected system errors
• Checking uninterruptable power supply (UPS) and battery levels and health
• Checking overall performance of the system (hard disk, RAM, CPU)
• Checking for firmware updates for system hardware