With so many options to improve your IT infrastructure, do you know which may have the biggest impact on your business? Have you been putting off IT projects because they are too complex or you don’t know where to begin?
There are some projects that can have such a positive effect on your business, they are well worth considering and this may be the perfect time to do them. Here are 3 projects that can transform your business and provide benefits for months or years to come.
Adopt Virtualization in the IT Infrastructure
As the servers in your network reach the end of their useful lifespans, they could be replaced by virtual machines. Virtualization has a number of benefits, including reduced energy costs (fewer physical servers use less air conditioning and electricity), better business agility (new virtual machines can be quickly deployed as needed), better disaster recovery (quicker restoration of a crashed server), and reduced management costs.
Utilize Cloud Services
Not everything works in the cloud, but certain workloads lend themselves very well to cloud computing, and in these areas, the benefits (lower management costs, capacity-on-demand as needed, greater mobility, improved business continuity capabilities) are very real.
Institute a Business Continuity Plan
Technology today can enable your business to have an affordable and workable plan to get your business up and running remarkably quickly after even a major disaster. The technologies mentioned above (virtualization and cloud services) can be used to make your business resilient to a wide variety of events that, just a few years ago, could have threatened the survival of the business.
The secret to the success of any IT project is to have expert IT project management skills. If your business doesn’t staff that skill set, use an IT consulting firm like Clare Computer Solutions that can manage your IT projects and ensure that the projects are well-planned, executed on time, and on budget. The benefits of having an effective and organized approach to your long-term IT infrastructure start with a simple discussion about your business and your plans and goals. Contact us today to get started!
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