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It might have been a while since you looked at your business technology. It’s worth considering its age, its performance, and when it’s likely to start needing to be updated or replaced. As a business, technology often drives the core of your day-to-day activities. A system, server, or piece of equipment failing on you leads to a dangerous drop in business productivity and potential loss of revenue. After all, if your business can’t operate, it can’t earn money. It’s more important than ever for your business to be on top of its technology, and ensure nothing goes down at a critical moment.

Business Technology: Reliable and Performance-Focused

Business technology differs from typical consumers; whereas consumer usage of technology is limited to specific use-cases (for example, gamers using graphics products to play) and specific times of the day, business technologies are used intensively, often around the clock. This level of stress demands a guarantee of reliability and performance, that as your demand increases or reaches a peak, that your technology can’t or won’t fail you and your business. Follow the guidance below, and keep your business working smoothly.

Your Server Maintenance

Your server is where all your work, data, financials, and even customer data are likely to be stored. This makes your installation one of the most valuable aspects of your business. Monitoring and maintaining your server should be the highest priority. The right server should afford your business easy maintenance access and persistent oversight over operations and performance, along with redundancies such as RAID configurations and power supply redundancies so that the risk of data loss or power loss is mitigated. ASUS Business motherboard products offer a wealth of smart and reliable design technologies, including features such as:

• Multiple PCIe Gen 3 x16 slots
• Up to 1.5 TB memory support
• 12K Solid Capacitors, along with ProCool Power Connectors and Beat Thermal Choke for the best thermal performance and power delivery
• Q-Code Logger, a one-touch system status checker

These and other features ASUS include in their business server products maintain your business security and performance, helping you to avoid issues such as power spikes and over-heating bringing down your system and impacting your business productivity. Browse the ASUS range of business products including server motherboards and configurations: ASUS Business

Choose Peripherals Made to Last

Often forgotten, your peripherals – mice, keyboards, and other tool – are your organisation’s input to your sphere of technology. Without any input, nothing gets done. If those inputs are faulty, poorly designed, or lacking in quality, it slows productivity, and causes friction in your staff’s workflow. Look for peripherals crafted with high-quality materials, and designed with intensive user input in mind. Quality mice will have been stress-tested and clicked millions of times to test for incidental clicking, switch deterioration, and more. Meanwhile keyboards should include 100% anti-ghosting with N-key rollover technology, preventing hardware-related mistyping and removing limits to typing speeds and quality for users. Mechanical switches are recommended with keyboards, for their more tactile feedback and longevity.

The Right Monitor for the Right Use-Case

Monitors can be one of the first points of failure in a system setup, due to their near-constant use. Screen burn-in, dead pixels, and other such issues can present themselves over time. Additionally, the monitors your staff are currently using might be causing them issues elsewhere. For example, any creative business has specific and stringent requirements for any graphic design or visual creative work. 4K displays, Adobe RGB and sRGB, colour accuracy and hardware calibration are just a few factors to consider. Those creatives without may be producing sub-par quality work with poor colour accuracy, which when sent to the printers, may be produced differently than originally designed. Don’t leave your creative work to chance. Choose from the stunning range of ASUS ProArt Displays today. Businesses not needing such specifics still have to consider the following:

• Ergonomics
• Flexibility in design
• Inputs
• Screen size
• Screen quality
• Power Efficiency
• Eye Care/Blue Screen Filtering
• Refresh rate
• Response time
• Viewing Angles
• Touch-responsiveness

While some of those factors are dependent on use-case (for example, wide viewing angles are important for displays to be used in meetings, conferences, and as a tool for presentations), the majority of them are considerations for any member of staff that’s going to be working in front of a monitor daily. It’s worth noting that selected ASUS ProArt display purchases are now available with a two-year warranty extension, for a total of five year’s cover – offering your business the perfect opportunity to enjoy stunning display performance with years of coverage, should anything go wrong. Give your team the best displays, and watch productivity soar: ASUS Monitor Range

Test Your Components

Beyond servers, peripherals and monitors, comes the systems themselves – more specifically, the components found inside them. Each part of your system has a lifetime, one that will at some point expire.

• Motherboards
• Processors
• Storage devices
• Memory
• Graphics Products
• Cooling Solutions

It’s important to have your components tested as part of your regular IT regimen. Stress tests and digital health check-ups are easily found, and can be used to check the health and lifetime of solid-state and mechanical hard-drive storage, memory tests, CPU test, and even graphics card benchmarking and stress testing. If errors are found, you should have components upgraded and/or replaced as soon as you can, to ensure the system remains reliable and performance high. There’s a lot to consider when caring for your businesses’ technology environment, but it’s important to stay on top of it, before problems start arising and impacting your business. When it comes to choosing reliable hardware, choose ASUS.