Every IT department is overburdened these days. And it gets tougher all the time, managing increasingly complex needs with limited resources and so many competing priorities. Maybe it’s time for a bit of targeted, affordable help.

Keeping your business reliably and securely connected – wherever and whenever people need to communicate – can strain your budget, tax human resources and cause crucial projects to slip past their deadlines. Your entire IT mandate can come down to monitoring network operations, safeguarding against downtime and giving people access to a growing array of apps – all while you try to stay one step ahead of the spammers and cyber criminals.

Allstream can help fill those IT resource gaps with our portfolio of cost-effective Managed Services. Network performance, unified communications, hosting and security challenges – wherever you need help, we’re ready to provide it. And whatever level of support you opt for, rest assured that you’ll continue to make the key management decisions and retain control your overall IT strategy.

Our job is simply to keep an eye on day-to-day issues – managing maintenance and reporting, ensuring you have all the current upgrades and responding quickly to any interruptions.

Don’t waste your valuable time on mundane tasks. Let Allstream look after everyday IT management chores while you pursue the big-picture strategy.

Enhance your network and IT management:

Allstream simplifies the complexities of managing communications by:

• letting you put your best people in the roles where they’ll have the most impact (while our experts take care of everything else)
• updating you constantly on network availability, health and performance
• monitoring security status and events in real time, 24/7
• keeping your infrastructure up to date with the latest technologies and best practices
• maintaining network and applications performance even as you’re adding new users or moving, expanding and consolidating offices
• protecting you against technology obsolescence – and helping you plan for future change
• allowing you to sleep soundly, knowing that your network is being looked after round the clock.

Get your people working more efficiently:

A complex communications infrastructure requires endless hours of monitoring, managing and diagnostic checks from your IT team – time better spent on driving business growth. Backed by Allstream’s Managed Unified 

Communications and Network Services, your people will be free to work more efficiently and productively on the challenges that define your future.

The same holds true for our Managed Security and Managed Hosting services. We protect you from security threats and ensure business continuity in the event of a disaster – so you and your team can look beyond the worst-case scenarios to focus on moving the organization forward.

How Allstream Managed Services can save you money:

• Extend the operating hours of your IT department with no additional hires.
• Let the IT team focus on key tasks and business-building initiatives, which in turn will yield positive results at the bottom line.
• Cut down on the need for specialized IT training and/or high-priced expert talent.
• Reduce your hardware and software investments, along with the cost of upgrades and patches.
• Lower your hydro and real estate costs by migrating to energy-efficient offsite hosting facilities.
• Minimize network downtime, clearing the way for greater organizational efficiency and better financial results.
• Protect your data and IT infrastructure from breaches, which can lead to lost sales, brand erosion and costly litigation.