The responsibilities associated with operating the government, whether it be through the offices of a mayor’s city or the expansive reach of a federal department, are unquestionably enormous. In order for the duties to be carried out by those entrusted to serve there has to be an effective and efficient system in place, a system that can not only meet the heavy demands but do so in a timely manner. To do this the government, not unlike a business, relies on their computer network systems.
Everybody has their own horror story about a day-long affair at the DMV or frustrating experience at the post office, typically concluding with a charge of incompetence or a general belief that the employees are apathetic. What’s unfortunate is that this conclusion is more often than not misguided and typically fails to take into account one very important factor.
It’s probably pretty rare that somebody asks themselves during one of these exhausting affairs “do these employees have the resources to meet the demands of their job?” The simple truth is if they don’t then you shouldn’t be blaming them, you might want to take a look at the computer network system they are working on. As budget cutbacks and tighter control over expenditures has taken root in the government the resources going toward monitoring the health of their computer network systems has dwindled.
Just as successful companies know the significance of maintaining the performance of their computer network system so too should the government. When you step back and realize that these networks are responsible for sharing and storing an untold amount of files, data and information, facilitating communication among employees, running application programs and sharing software it is easy to understand why such attention is paid; if anything were to go wrong with that network system then there could be serious problems.
One of the most obvious signs a problem exists with a computer network system is a reduction in speed and it is this setback that can open the door for a host of other issues that will inevitably appear. For an employee at a company to be productive and satisfy the needs of customers or clients they need to have a reliable computer network system that will allow them to carry out their job functions. The same is true for a government employee, how could it be any different?
These government employees need the same level of reliability and effectiveness from their computer network systems as any employee at a private or public company, probably more so. What typically gets lost in all of this is the fact that the health of a computer network system is more about maintaining than it is about replacing.
This should be a relief to the government as the costly process of replacing computer network systems wouldn’t win favor among tax-payers. With watchful eyes accounting for every dollar spent, the expenditures that once existed are no longer and the government is finding themselves on a tighter budget.
Just because there is a tighter budget doesn’t mean there is any justification in ignoring the health of a computer network system. It’s important to understand that the health of a computer network system will diminish if not protected and the main culprit in this diminishing health is fragmentation, a naturally occurring computer disease that targets the manner in which files are saved and stored, essentially robbing your network of its speed.
As the speed of a network gets slower the progression of fragmentation becomes greater and what eventually happens is a network crash, putting at risk all of those files, data and information that had been stored on the network. In a business such a crash would be considered catastrophic; needless to say you would have to create a new word if such a crash were to hit the network system of the government.
Fortunately fragmentation is relatively easy to keep in check as companies like Diskeeper have created defragmentation software that is capable of cleaning a computer network system of fragmented files, ensuring fragmentation doesn’t return as well as repairing your network’s speed and reliability.
In the end defragmentation provides government computer network systems not just a clean bill of health but also the opportunity for government workers to actually have the resources necessary to carry out their jobs. The best part about defragmentation software is it comes at a fraction of the price of a new computer network system, easily winning the support of tax-payers.
