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Surviving In a Technologically Demanding Business World

By: Scott Jarvis
Submitted: 2008-05-29 12:44:20
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The majority of business owners these days are always looking for ways to improve productivity and performance at a low cost.  With budgets becoming more restrictive and most companies penny pinching many executives are finding it difficult to get both old and new services at a friendly price.  This is no truer perhaps than when dealing with IT staffs and department budgets.  With almost every aspect of the IT world becoming pricier those in charge of IT departments as well as their CEO’s have recently been forced to get extremely creative and do more with less.  The most talented of these people will never cut corner but instead find a way to meet the needs of both their networks and their staff.

Most recently two affordable solutions have presented themselves to willing industry leaders.  Both network automation as well as data center consolidation are providing institutions with not only affordable new technologies but these technologies also save money and time buy freeing up resources and allowing networks to manage themselves to a large degree.  Of course those who do automate quickly learn that this does not necessitate the end of employing an IT staff.  What it does mean however is that those individuals who once spent their days watching for and patching bugs can now be assigned more significant tasks which ultimately makes an IT department more productive.  This also allows an IT budget to be neatly trimmed as the need for hours of overtime will be lessen considerably.

Aside from automating a network a business may also opt for data center consolidation in lieu of automation or in addition to it.  Either way consolidating networks helps all businesses make their IT budgets much more responsible and manageable by drastically cutting the cost of power consumption and allowing multiple servers to be combined into one.  Additionally important business applications can be merged onto a single server which usually means an improvement in application performance and reliability.  Those thinking of data center consolidation should be aware however that the process is not a short one by any stretch of the imagination.  Though smaller networks will complete the process more rapidly large corporations and networks should expect at least a 5 year process.

Most business have already adopted data center automation and while consolidation is the new kid on the block, expect to see businesses of all sizes warming up to the procedure as the economy forces businesses to work with less.  We should also expect companies that streamline their networks and IT teams with one or both of these methods to survive while those that do not will likely have a difficult time maintaining a healthy bottom line and may end up going out of business.  This highly technology dependant business world requires a willingness to accept changes even when they initially seem as though they aren’t for you.

Scott has a large scale plane for implementing data center consolidation within his networks and knows this will only benefit his business.

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