Virtualization infrastructure plays an important role in the transparency, flexibility, and planning if best practices are applied in its design. While you may inherit an infrastructure, rather than designing one from the beginning, it’s best to step back rather than continuing to support “good enough” policies. Therefore, initiating a plan to get back to design principles can help you form a good basis for maintenance and management in the future. You should regularly refine your plan … [Read more...]
Why IT Infrastructure Is Critical for Your Success
IT infrastructure is a lot like any of the utilities in your home. You don’t give a lot of thought to running a hot shower or turning on a light switch, that is until you notice that the hot water isn't running and the light never turned on to brighten the room. IT infrastructure is not only critical to the functioning of your enterprise but also the push for innovation and competitive advantage. What is IT infrastructure? Put simply, it’s the components that support the … [Read more...]
Upgrading IT Infrastructure: A Good Move for Your Budget
For many organizations, upgrading IT infrastructure lingers at the bottom of the priority list. The anticipation of going through a big process to choose, purchase, and integrate new equipment seems too daunting compared with the simple alternative of extending a maintenance contract or investing in a few smaller upgrades. Therefore, it's important to ask the hard questions and realize when it starts costing your company more to extend the usefulness of your current infrastructure rather than … [Read more...]
Why IT Infrastructure Upgrades Are Essential
If you’re not prioritizing your infrastructure to support digital transformation, your competitors could soon leave you in the dust. IT infrastructure upgrades are proving essential for handling the data-driven, personalized customer experience that is becoming the expected standard. By investing in IT infrastructure upgrades that allow the harnessing of customer data, some enterprises are easily outpacing their competitors. Consider companies such as Lyft and Uber, who don’t own a fleet of … [Read more...]
Putting Data at the Center of IT Infrastructure
The volume and the importance of data are growing, and the generation of it is multiplying at an astounding rate. The challenge is that much of this data is being created at the edge of the network, and in general, IT infrastructure has not been built to handle the increased flow of data back to a central hub for processing. For data to be at the center of business, it should also be at the center of IT infrastructure. But instead, infrastructure has been built over time, with data siloed by … [Read more...]
How Edge Computing Will Change Government IT
Businesses are using edge computing to reduce the amount of data traffic running in and out of networks in order to ease congestion, allow for real-time analysis and interpretation of data, and improve security. Government agencies, from local to federal offices, may find that edge computing solves many of the challenges of modernizing network infrastructure. What is edge computing? Edge computing involves any data processing that’s completed right at or near the place where the data is … [Read more...]