Systems Management For Small Businesses

Laurie McCabe explains what systems management solutions can do for small businesses, suggests what they should look for in a solution and inlcudes links to major solution providers such as Dell KACE and Spiceworks.

What is Systems Management? Systems management is an umbrella term that refers to the centralized management of a company’s information technology assets, and it’s one that encompasses many different tasks required to monitor and manage IT systems and resolve IT problems. Systems management solutions can help small business owners address many requirements including (but not limited to) the following:

• Monitoring and management of network, server, storage, printers and client devices (desktop, laptop and mobile devices), including notification of impending or actual failures, capacity issues and other systems and network events."