Metric and Multistandard Components Corp.: The Business Value of a secure Self-Managed Network for a Small-to-Medium Business

1)      What were the most important factors contributing to MMCC’s success with its new, secure, self managed network? Explain the reasons for your choices.

When MMCC switched on to new networking solutions the important thing that helped it is understanding the need of their business and looking for the system that makes it easier to meet those needs. They made an outline about their requirements consisting of reliability of the system, flexibility or scalability of system, Security concerns and expenses undertaken to deploy the system. When they were sure about what they need they search for the options available and adopted the most efficient one for the organizations like theirs. The factors that helped MMCC to grow and be successful are:

·         Their new system was able to provide them greater connectivity with higher reliability, security and scalability in comparatively very low costs resulting increased productivity and profitability of the business.

·         Use of advance technology for high availability and efficient network and security management, which can be operated easily.

·         Introduction of virtual private network technologies to connect remote offices and users securely also facilitating the company expansion policies.........click below to read all.

·         Proper management of support system in order to minimize delays and errors.

2)      What are some of the business benefits and challenges of self managed and externally managed networks?

Benefits of self managed network are:                               

·         Saving of time and money.

·         Flexibility or scalability of the system.

·          Higher security measures.

·         Reliability and responsibility.

        Challenges of self managed network:

·         Minor errors can create big problems.

·         Management issues.

·         Controlling issues.

     Benefits of externally managed network:

·         Assignment of responsibility.

·          Network doesn’t get affected by organizational disputes.

·         A problem gets solved easily due to expert solutions.

  Challenges of externally managed network:

·         Security concerns.

·         Cost issues.

·          Flexibility terms.

3)      Which type of network management would you advise small to medium business firms to use? Explain the reasons for your recommendation.

Small to medium business are those business for which network management is equally important as that to big organizations but they need to think about their budget issues considering the growth of their business. It’s very unreasonable for such organizations to go for expensive external network management which costs them a fortune and can’t be upgraded or degraded as per their need. They need to have reliable network with very sound security options. So I think for small to medium business organizations I would suggest using self managed network management because it helps them to minimize their cost with better reliability and accuracy of the system.

Self managed network management helps them to maintain it as per their need and it ensures the security of their data resources since the data is managed internally. It makes them to save their time because they could find the errors easily and rectify them improving customer satisfaction. This also helps them to increase the speed as well as accuracy of the network management.

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