IT equipment needs special attention and maintenance to function, as in many other cases of complex systems and devices. There are two ways to do maintenance, corrective and preventive. Let’s see the differences.
Computer systems and devices are usually complex to operate and maintain. When it comes to maintenance, you must first take into account that computer systems are a conjunction of:
1) Hardware – Physical devices and physical components.
2) Software – Programs and non-physical systems.
Both form an inseparable set where if one of the two fails, everything fails.
So, maintenance is done at the level of both hardware and software. But there can be two types of maintenance, below we explain both and their differences.
The objective of preventive maintenance is to anticipate possible system failures, and thus optimize the operation and useful life of all devices and components of an IT system.
This is done on the basis of having a regularly scheduled maintenance plan.
This method, which at first might seem like an extra expense, avoids problems, stoppages and unforeseen events, and in the end it always ends up saving time and money.
Corrective maintenance are actions of the technical service in response to warnings about the malfunction of some equipment or component of the computer system. These are actions that are normally requested unexpectedly by both the customer and the service, and sometimes it is possible that it is a critical situation that loses important and valuable time, and sometimes the technical service may not arrive as quickly as possible. possible, or other unplanned incidents, such as having to replace a machine or component and it not arriving for several days, thus causing significant losses, etc.
It is a method that in the short term is saved, but in the long run it is always lost.
Let’s be very brief… Prevention is better than cure. No doubt about it.
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