The maintenance of technology infrastructure is typically 15-20% of IT staff costs.   Rather than hiring more employees, it’s often cheaper to engage a managed service provider for this service.   Continuous Networks’ engineers can monitor and maintain several companies at once, allowing them to scale up or down to meet demand.   This also allows companies to focus on their core competencies – it’s not very efficient for a business to have its employees spend all day worrying about computer problems instead of performing their roles.