With the rising dominance of technology in the corporate world, it can be difficult to balance your company’s goals while meeting your customer’s demands. IT management is one way to take the technological load off of your company’s shoulders and still uphold the high standards of operation.
Cre8tive Technology & Design wants your company to flourish. We will show you how you can improve your IT infrastructure through comprehensive management strategies that will support your continued growth.
What is IT Infrastructure?
IT infrastructure is all of the elements of your business that control the management of your data and information. Those elements consist of hardware and software components that, working together, contain your information.
The hardware is all of the physical pieces:
- Desktop computers
- Servers
- Data centers
- Hubs
- Routers
- Switches
- Facilities
The software is all of the non-tangible components:
- Content management systems (CMS)
- Customer relationship management (CRM)
- Enterprise resources planning (ERP)
- Operating systems
- Web servers
Types of IT Infrastructure
There are two types of IT infrastructure: traditional infrastructure and cloud infrastructure. Traditional infrastructure is made up of the aforementioned hardware and software elements and requires more power, money, and physical space to maintain. Commonly, traditional infrastructure is installed on a company’s premises for internal use only.
Cloud infrastructure differs from traditional infrastructure in that computing resources can be accessed without the need of on-premises installation. The process of virtualization connects physical servers, maintained by a service provider, to an array of locations. It allows resources to be accessible anywhere internet connections can be made. Cloud infrastructure is not private so, typically, companies use a hybrid structure to allocate their resources between internal and external.
What are the Benefits?
IT infrastructure management allows your company to transition from reactive measures to proactive measures. Instead of focusing all of your company’s efforts on putting out technological fires as they crop up, you can work on maintaining the frameworks already in place to prevent challenges from occurring at all. Doing so can improve employee productivity and morale, as they won’t be hindered by IT mishaps, and will carry this goodwill downstream to your clients.
Adhering to proactive practices can optimize your IT investments by keeping your systems running at their maximum performance levels. Developing maintenance and update schedules, documentation protocols, and monitoring your infrastructure will allow your systems to live out their full life cycles and save your company money with fewer replacements.
When implementing any maintenance changes and updates, IT management eliminates the risk of creating a significant service interruption or damages in the process. There are a lot of dangers that come with poorly planned, tested, and communicated changes to IT systems, which are mitigated when you have a team of IT experts whose formalized roles give them the knowledge and experience to ensure smooth transitions throughout any changes.
IT management can improve every facet of your business. By improving the efficiency of your technological resources you improve the efficiency of your business overall.
How Can You Begin?
The best way to begin managing your IT infrastructure is through contracting. If your company is not IT-based, you may not have the time or resources to optimally manage your IT infrastructure and trying to develop an IT management team In-House comes with a host of risks and complications. You become limited to hiring the qualified individuals that can be found in your area, and committed to the cost of training, new equipment, and additional office space. By sharing the load of your IT management, you’re not only splitting up the physical burden, but the financial burden as well.
Contracting allows companies to share the responsibility of divvying up the costs with an assortment of other companies, instead of just your own. By reaching out to professionals, your company will be able to grow with the ever-changing technological advancements and keep experts on hand to troubleshoot any issues you may have.
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