In the March/April 2011 issue of the AAA North Jersey Traveler magazine, author Jim Grey wrote an article entitled, “Preventative maintenance helps the life of your vehicle.” While I won’t reprint the article in its entirety, I do want to highlight a few of the statements he uses to describe how to take care of your car, and apply them to the care of your computer network.
“Consumers may think it’s the luck of the draw when a car reaches 200,000 miles and another bites the dust at 100,000, [while] it really comes down to preventative maintenance.
Scheduling regular trips to your mechanic can mean the difference in tens of thousands of miles in your car’s life.”
Well, most small business owners know that their computer networks can last anywhere from two years to ten. But very few of them contact a technician to take care of them until something breaks. Most people don’t know (and even fewer even care) about the common maintenance techniques necessary to keep their computer networks running properly.
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